On Leibniz / Nicholas Rescher.
Contemporary philosopher John Searle has characterized Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) as "the most intelligent human being who has ever lived." The German philosopher, mathematician, and logician invented calculus (independently of Sir Isaac Newton), topology, determinants, binary a...
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Table of Contents:
- Leibniz on Possible Worlds
- Contingentia Mundi : Leibniz on the World's Contingency
- Leibniz on Intermonadic Relations
- Leibniz and the Plurality of Space-Time Frameworks
- Leibniz and the Concept of a System
- Leibniz and Issues of Eternal Recurrence
- Leibnizian Neo-Platonism and Rational Mechanics
- Leibniz and the World's Improvability
- The Epistemology of Inductive Reasoning in Leibniz
- Leibniz, Keynes, and the Rabbis
- Leibniz and Socialized Medicine
- The Contributions of the Paris Period (1672-1676) to Leibniz's Metaphysics
- Leibniz Finds a Niche (1676-1677)
- Leibniz Visits Vienna (1712-1714)
- Leibniz Crosses the Atlantic
- Leibniz and American Philosophy
- Leibniz and Cryptography
- Leibniz's Machina Deciphratoria : A Seventeenth-Century Proto-Enigma Machine
- Process Philosophy and Monadological Metaphysics
- Was Leibniz Ennobled?
- Leibniz Disillusioned : Parting Ways from J.D. Crafft.