Monads, Composition, and Force: Ariadnean Threads Through Leibniz's Labyrinth

ISBN-13: 9780198812869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 352 str.

Richard T. W. Arthur

Opis

In this new work, Richard T. W. Arthur offers a fresh interpretation of Leibniz's theory of substance. He goes against a long trend of idealistic interpretations of Leibniz's thought by instead taking seriously Leibniz's claim of introducing monads to solve the problem of the composition of matter and motion.

Recenzje

It should be essential reading for anyone interested either in Leibniz's thinking about the continuum or in the origin and development of his metaphysics. Stephen Puryear, North Carolina State University, Journal of the History of Philosophy

O autorze

Richard T. W. Arthur is a Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University. He specializes in early modern natural philosophy and mathematics, with special attention to Leibniz, Newton, and Descartes. He is known primarily for his work on Leibniz, on whom he has written numerous articles and two books, G. W. Leibniz: The Labyrinth of the Continuum (Yale University Press, 2001), and Leibniz (Polity Press, 2014). His research interests also include the theory of the infinite, the epistemology of science, and the theory of time, on which he is finishing a book defending the reality of becoming in modern physics.