Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity is an intricate and rich book...It is both conceptually and contextually rigorous and evinces Arthur's mastery of Leibniz's fragmentary corpus, as well as several generations of Anglophone Leibniz scholarship. Arthur's work on the continuum problem represents a monumental contribution to Leibniz studies and will amply reward all scholars of Early Modern European philosophy and science.

Christopher P. Noble, Metascience

Leibniz on Time, Space, and Relativity is an intricate and rich book ... It is both conceptually and contextually rigorous and evinces Arthur's mastery of Leibniz's fragmentary corpus, as well as several generations of Anglophone Leibniz scholarship. Arthur's work on the continuum problem represents a monumental contribution to Leibniz studies and will amply reward all scholars of Early Modern European philosophy and science.

Christopher P. Noble, Metascience

This book will be precious to those who search a unified view on these topics in which physic and metaphysic are intertwined, and constitute, for that reason, a significant contribution of Leibniz's studies.

Dr. Gabriel Meyer-Bisch, Studia Leibnitiana

In this book, Arthur gives fresh interpretations of Gottfried Leibniz's theories of time, space, and the relativity of motion, based on a thorough examination of Leibniz's manuscripts as well as his published papers. These are analysed in historical context, but also with an eye to their contemporary relevance. Leibniz's views on relativity have been extremely influential, first on Mach, and then on Einstein, while his novel approach to geometry in his analysis situs inspired many later developments in geometry. Arthur expounds the latter in some detail, explaining its relationship to Leibniz's metaphysics of space and the grounding of motion, and defending Leibniz's views on the relativity of motion against charges of inconsistency. The brilliance of his work on time, though, has not been so well appreciated, and Arthur attempts to remedy this through a detailed discussion of Leibniz's relational theory of time, showing how it underpins his theory of possible worlds, his complex account of contingency, and his highly original treatment of the continuity of time, providing formal treatments in an appendix. In other appendices, Arthur provides translations of previously untranslated writings by Leibniz on analysis situs and on Copernicanism, as well as an essay on Leibniz's philosophy of relations. In his introductory chapter he explains how the framework for the book is provided by the interpretation of Leibniz's metaphysics he defended in his earlier Monads, Composition, and Force (OUP 2018, winner of the 2019 annual JHP Book Prize for best book in the history of philosophy published in 2018).
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This book presents fresh interpretations of Gottfried Leibniz's theories of time, space, and the relativity of motion, based on a thorough examination of Leibniz's manuscripts as well as his published papers. These are analysed in historical context, but also with an eye to their contemporary relevance.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780192849076
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
800 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
30 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
422

Biographical note

Richard T. W. Arthur is Professor Emeritus at McMaster University. He specializes in early modern natural philosophy and mathematics, and the foundations of physics, with special attention to the theory of time and the infinite. He is the author of seven books and over 60 articles and book chapters.