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Pages: 256
Authors: Gregory Brown
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-27 - Publisher: Springer

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This volume brings together a number of original articles by leading Leibniz scholars to address the meaning and significance of Leibniz’s notions of compossi
Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics
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Authors: Ohad Nachtomy
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-25 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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This book reveals a thread that runs through Leibniz’s metaphysics: from his logical notion of possible individuals to his notion of actual, nested ones. It p
Leibniz
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Pages: 283
Authors: Donald Rutherford
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-03-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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New essays offer an overview of current research into Leibniz' metaphysics, situating this distinctive philosophy of nature.
The Best of All Possible Worlds? Leibniz's Philosophical Optimism and Its Critics 1710-1755
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The first comprehensive survey of the criticisms of Leibniz's philosophical optimism in the first half of the eighteenth century, when what has been called the
Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Time and Space
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Leibniz’s metaphysics of space and time stands at the centre of his philosophy and is one of the high-water marks in the history of the philosophy of science.