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Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad

Garber Daniel
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk

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9780199566648
Publisert
2009
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Oxford University Press
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829 gr
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241 mm
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163 mm
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30 mm
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UP, 05
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
452

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Garber Daniel

Biographical note

Daniel Garber received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 1975. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1975, and from 2002, he has taught at Princeton University, where he is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy and an Associate Member of the Program in History of Science.

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Garber Daniel
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Daniel Garbers book is an important contribution.

Tamás Demeter, Philosopy in Review QUOTE LOADED 21/01/2013

Garber has written a remarkable book.

Francoise Monnoyeur, The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 60 No. 241 (Oct 2010)

Garber has delivered an unusually rich and subtle reading of Leibniz... his meticulous story of the development of Leibniz's thought about substance and body from his early years up through the middle years, and in particular his insightful description of the ways in which considerations of unity, persistence, and activity led Leibniz to realize that substantial forms have something to contribute to physics, is by far the best account we have of this subject... an immensely valuable contribution to the literature. Its combination of first-rate scholarship and provocative interpretive theses will make it essential reading for specialists working on Leibniz's metaphysics. It would be a shame, however, if it were read only by specialists. For the story it tells is an engaging one.

Stephen Puryear, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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impressive and brilliantly argued ... a fascinating journey through Leibniz's view (or views) of the physical world and its metaphysical grounding from his earliest years to the end of his life. There can be no doubt that the resulting study constitues a milestone contribution which will mark the direction of the debate on Leibniz's theories of substance and of the ontological status of bodies for many years to come.

Maria Rosa Antognazza, Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science

With a powerful mix of original scholarship, textual analysis, and contextualization, Daniel Garber closes a case he has been building for nearly thirty years against the myth of Leibniz as "a dogmatic who from his early years to the end of his life lived in an austere and immaterial world of spiritual substances".

Geoffrey Gorham, Isis

Daniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world. Leibniz's commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz's apparently idealist metaphysics is very puzzling: how can any sensible person think that the world is made up of tiny minds? In this book, Garber tries to make Leibniz's thought intelligible by focusing instead on his notion of body. Beginning with Leibniz's earliest writings, he shows how Leibniz starts as a Hobbesian with a robust sense of the physical world, and how, step by step, he advances to the monadological metaphysics of his later years. Much of the book's focus is on Leibniz's middle years, where the fundamental constituents of the world are corporeal substances, unities of matter and form understood on the model of animals. For Garber monads only enter fairly late in Leibniz's career, and when they enter, he argues, they do not displace bodies but complement them. In the end, though, Garber argues that Leibniz never works out the relation between the world of monads and the world of bodies to his own satisfaction: at the time of his death, his philosophy is still a work in progress.
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Daniel Garber presents a study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world, elucidating his puzzling metaphysics of monads, mind-like simple substances. Tracing the development of Leibniz's thought, Garber shows how dealing with problems about the physical world led him to a world of animate creatures, and finally to a world of monads.
Les mer
Introduction ; 1. First Thoughts ; 2. Reforming Mechanism: Unity ; 3. Reforming Mechanism: Body and Force, Matter and Form (I) ; 4. Reforming Mechanism: Body and Force, Matter and Form (II) ; 5. Complete Individual Concepts, Non-Communication and Causal Connection ; 6. Divine Wisdom and Final Causes ; 7. Leibnizian Phenomenalisms ; 8. Enchanting the World: "...after many corrections and forward steps in my thinking" ; 9. Monads, Bodies and Corporeal Substances: The Endgame ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index
Les mer
Daniel Garbers book is an important contribution.
A new perspective on a central figure in the philosophical canon. Long-awaited book from one of the world's leading historians of early modern philosophy. Culmination of many years' work on Leibniz.
Daniel Garber received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 1975. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1975, and from 2002, he has taught at Princeton University, where he is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy and an Associate Member of the Program in History of Science.
Les mer
A new perspective on a central figure in the philosophical canon. Long-awaited book from one of the world's leading historians of early modern philosophy. Culmination of many years' work on Leibniz.

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Daniel Garbers book is an important contribution.

Tamás Demeter, Philosopy in Review QUOTE LOADED 21/01/2013

Garber has written a remarkable book.

Francoise Monnoyeur, The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 60 No. 241 (Oct 2010)

Garber has delivered an unusually rich and subtle reading of Leibniz... his meticulous story of the development of Leibniz's thought about substance and body from his early years up through the middle years, and in particular his insightful description of the ways in which considerations of unity, persistence, and activity led Leibniz to realize that substantial forms have something to contribute to physics, is by far the best account we have of this subject... an immensely valuable contribution to the literature. Its combination of first-rate scholarship and provocative interpretive theses will make it essential reading for specialists working on Leibniz's metaphysics. It would be a shame, however, if it were read only by specialists. For the story it tells is an engaging one.

Stephen Puryear, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Se alle

impressive and brilliantly argued ... a fascinating journey through Leibniz's view (or views) of the physical world and its metaphysical grounding from his earliest years to the end of his life. There can be no doubt that the resulting study constitues a milestone contribution which will mark the direction of the debate on Leibniz's theories of substance and of the ontological status of bodies for many years to come.

Maria Rosa Antognazza, Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science

With a powerful mix of original scholarship, textual analysis, and contextualization, Daniel Garber closes a case he has been building for nearly thirty years against the myth of Leibniz as "a dogmatic who from his early years to the end of his life lived in an austere and immaterial world of spiritual substances".

Geoffrey Gorham, Isis

Daniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world. Leibniz's commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz's apparently idealist metaphysics is very puzzling: how can any sensible person think that the world is made up of tiny minds? In this book, Garber tries to make Leibniz's thought intelligible by focusing instead on his notion of body. Beginning with Leibniz's earliest writings, he shows how Leibniz starts as a Hobbesian with a robust sense of the physical world, and how, step by step, he advances to the monadological metaphysics of his later years. Much of the book's focus is on Leibniz's middle years, where the fundamental constituents of the world are corporeal substances, unities of matter and form understood on the model of animals. For Garber monads only enter fairly late in Leibniz's career, and when they enter, he argues, they do not displace bodies but complement them. In the end, though, Garber argues that Leibniz never works out the relation between the world of monads and the world of bodies to his own satisfaction: at the time of his death, his philosophy is still a work in progress.
Les mer
Daniel Garber presents a study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world, elucidating his puzzling metaphysics of monads, mind-like simple substances. Tracing the development of Leibniz's thought, Garber shows how dealing with problems about the physical world led him to a world of animate creatures, and finally to a world of monads.
Les mer
Introduction ; 1. First Thoughts ; 2. Reforming Mechanism: Unity ; 3. Reforming Mechanism: Body and Force, Matter and Form (I) ; 4. Reforming Mechanism: Body and Force, Matter and Form (II) ; 5. Complete Individual Concepts, Non-Communication and Causal Connection ; 6. Divine Wisdom and Final Causes ; 7. Leibnizian Phenomenalisms ; 8. Enchanting the World: "...after many corrections and forward steps in my thinking" ; 9. Monads, Bodies and Corporeal Substances: The Endgame ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index
Les mer
Daniel Garbers book is an important contribution.
A new perspective on a central figure in the philosophical canon. Long-awaited book from one of the world's leading historians of early modern philosophy. Culmination of many years' work on Leibniz.
Daniel Garber received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 1975. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1975, and from 2002, he has taught at Princeton University, where he is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy and an Associate Member of the Program in History of Science.
Les mer
A new perspective on a central figure in the philosophical canon. Long-awaited book from one of the world's leading historians of early modern philosophy. Culmination of many years' work on Leibniz.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199566648
Publisert
2009
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
829 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
452

Forfatter
Garber Daniel

Biographical note

Daniel Garber received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 1975. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1975, and from 2002, he has taught at Princeton University, where he is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy and an Associate Member of the Program in History of Science.

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