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Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist? (Hardcover, 2008 ed.) Loot Price: R6,107
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Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist? (Hardcover, 2008 ed.): Marcelo Dascal

Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist? (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)

Marcelo Dascal

Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 13

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was an outstanding contributor to many fields of human knowledge. The historiography of philosophy has tagged him as a "rationalist." But what does this exactly mean? Is he a "rationalist" in the same sense in Mathematics and Politics, in Physics and Jurisprudence, in Metaphysics and Theology, in Logic and Linguistics, in Technology and Medicine, in Epistemology and Ethics? What are the most significant features of his "rationalism," whatever it is?

For the first time an outstanding group of Leibniz researchers, some acknowledged as leading scholars, others in the beginning of a promising career, who specialize in the most significant areas of Leibniz's contributions to human thought and action, were requested to spell out the nature of his rationalism in each of these areas, with a view to provide a comprehensive picture of what it amounts to, both in its general drive and in its specific features and eventual inner tensions.

The chapters of the book are the result of intense discussion in the course of an international conference focused on the title question of this book, and were selected in view of their contribution to this topic. They are clustered in thematically organized parts. No effort has been made to hide the controversies underlying the different interpretations of Leibniz's "rationalism" - in each particular domain and as a whole. On the contrary, the editor firmly believes that only through a variety of conflicting interpretive perspectives can the multi-faceted nature of an oeuvre of such a magnitude and variety as Leibniz's be brought to light and understood as it deserves.

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Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin: United States
Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, 13
Release date: September 2008
First published: September 2008
Editors: Marcelo Dascal
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 532
Edition: 2008 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-8667-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
LSN: 1-4020-8667-9
Barcode: 9781402086670

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