Leibniz : what kind of rationalist? / edited by Marcelo Dascal.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was an outstanding contributor to many fields of human knowledge. The historiography of philosophy has tagged him as a a oerationalista . But what does this exactly mean? Is he a a oerationalista in the same sense in Mathematics and Politics, in Physics and Jurisprudence, i...
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Table of Contents:
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Reinterpreting Leibniz's Rationalism?
- 1. Leibniz' rationalism: A plea against equating soft and hard rationality; Heinrich Schepers
- 2. Leibniz's multi-purpose dialectics; Marcelo Dascal
- 3. Leibniz's rationality: Divine intelligibility and human intelligibility; Ohad Nachtomy
- Part II: Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- 4. De abstracto et concreto: Empirical science and rationalism in Leibniz; Philip Beeley
- 5. Leibniz against the unreasonable Newtonian physics; Laurence Bouquiaux
- 6. Hermetic rationalism: Some hermetic aspects of Leibniz's mathematical rationalism; Bernardino Orio de Miguel
- 7. Symbolic inventiveness and 'irrational' practices in Leibniz's mathematics; Michel Serfati
- 8. The art of mathematical rationality; Herbert Breger
- Part III: Epistemology
- 9. Ramus and Leibniz on analysis; Andreas Blank
- 10. Locke, Leibniz, and Hume on form and experience; Emily Rolfe Grosholz
- 11. Leibniz's conception of natural explanation; Marta de Mendonça
- 12. The role of metaphor in Leibniz's epistemology; Cristina Marras
- 13. What is the foundation of knowledge? Leibniz and the amphibology of intuition; Marine Picon
- Part IV: Law
- 14. Leibniz: What kind of legal rationalism?; Pol Boucher
- 15. Two argumentative uses of the notion of uncertainty in Leibniz's De conditionibus; Alexandre Thiercelin
- 16. Contingent propositions and Leibniz's analysis of juridical dispositions; Evelyn Vargas
- 17. Leibniz on natural law in the Nouveaux Essais; Patrick Riley
- Part V: Ethics
- 18. Authenticity or autonomy? Leibniz and Kant on practical rationality; Carl J. Posy
- 19. The place of the other in Leibniz's rationalism; Noa Naaman
- 20. Morality and feeling: Genesis and determination of the will in Leibniz; Adelino Dias Cardoso
- 21. Leibniz and moral rationality; Martine de Gaudemar
- Part VI: Decision Making
- 22. Leibniz's models of rational decision; Markku Roinila
- 23. Electing the King of Poland: From the concatenation of proofs to a calculus of decisions; Jérémie Griard
- 24. Declarative vs. procedural rules for religious controversies: Leibniz's rational approach to heresy; Frédéric Nef
- 25. Apology for a credo maximum: Three basic rules in Leibniz's method of religious controversy; Mogens Laerke
- Part VII: Religion and Theology
- 26. Convergence or genealogy? Leibniz and the spectre of Pagan rationality; Justin E.H. Smith
- 27. "Paroles entièrement destituées de sens": 'Pathic reason' in the Théodicée; Giovanni Scarafile
- 28. The authority of the Bible and the authority of Reason in Leibniz's ecumenical argument; Hartmut Rudolph
- 29. Leibniz on creation: A contribution to his philosophical theology; Daniel Cook
- Part VIII: The Metaphysics of Rationality
- 30. For a history of Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason: The first formulations and their historical background; Francesco Piro
- 31. Innate ideas as the cornerstone of Leibniz's rationalism: The problem of moral principles in the Nouveaux essais; Hans Poser
- 32. Causa sive ratio: Univocity of reason and plurality of causes in Leibniz; Stefano Di Bella
- Index.