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On Leibniz - Expanded Edition (Paperback, Expanded ed.)
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On Leibniz - Expanded Edition (Paperback, Expanded ed.)
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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 arithmetic, symbolic logic, rational
mechanics, and much more. His metaphysics bequeathed a set of
problems and approaches that have influenced the course of Western
philosophy from Kant in the eighteenth century until the present
day.
On Leibniz examines many aspects of Leibniz's work and life. This
expanded edition adds new chapters that explore Leibniz's
revolutionary deciphering machine; his theoretical interest in
cryptography and its ties to algebra; his thoughts on eternal
recurrence theory; his rebuttal of the thesis of improvability in
the world and cosmos; and an overview of American scholarship on
Leibniz.
Other chapters reveal Leibniz as a substantial contributor to
theories of knowledge. Discussions of his epistemology and
methodology, its relationship to John Maynard Keynes and Talmudic
scholarship, broaden the traditional view of Leibniz. Rescher also
views Leibniz's scholarly development and professional career in
historical context. As a "philosopher courtier" to the Hanoverian
court, Leibniz was associated with the leading intellectuals and
politicians of his era, including Spinoza, Huygens, Newton, Queen
Sophie Charlotte, and Tsar Peter the Great.
Rescher extrapolates the fundamentals of Leibniz's ontology: the
theory of possible worlds, the world's contingency, space-time
frameworks, and intermonadic relationships. In conclusion, Rescher
positions Leibniz as a philosophical role model for today's
scholars. He argues that many current problems can be effectively
addressed with principles of process philosophy inspired by
Leibniz's system of monadology.
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