The Practice of Reason
Leibniz and his Controversies
Published on 4. March 2010
Book
Hardback
359 pages
978-90-272-1887-2 (ISBN)
Description
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) dedicated much of his life to some of the most central debates of his time. For him, our chance of progress towards the happiness of mankind lies in the capacity to recognize the value of the different perspectives through which humans approach the world. Controversies supply the opportunity to exercise this capacity by approaching the opponent not as an adversary but as someone from whose point of view we can enrich our own viewpoint and improve our knowledge.
This approach inspired the creation of this series. The book - the first in the series devoted to Leibniz - presents his views through actual controversies in which he participated, in several domains. Leibniz's original 'theory of controversies' thus appears not only as what the thinker thinks about how one should use reason in a controversy, but also how he puts in practice the kind of rationality he preaches.
This approach inspired the creation of this series. The book - the first in the series devoted to Leibniz - presents his views through actual controversies in which he participated, in several domains. Leibniz's original 'theory of controversies' thus appears not only as what the thinker thinks about how one should use reason in a controversy, but also how he puts in practice the kind of rationality he preaches.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
820 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-1887-2 (9789027218872)
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Content
1. Foreword; 2. Abbreviations; 3. Contributors; 4. 1. The principle of continuity and the 'paradox' of Leibnizian mathematics (by Serfati, Michel); 5. 2. Geometrization or mathematization: Christiaan Huygens's critiques of infinitesimal analysis in his correspondence with Leibniz (by Chareix, Fabien); 6. 3. Leibniz and the vis viva controversy (by Shimony, Idan); 7. 4. The controversy between Leibniz and Papin: From the public debate to the correspondence (by Rey, Anne-Lise); 8. 5. Leibniz vs. Stahl: A controversy well beyond medicine and chemistry (by Carvallo, Sarah); 9. 6. Leibniz's conciliatory approaches in scientific controversies (by Dascal, Marcelo); 10. 7. Leibniz vs. Lamy: How does confused perception unite soul and body? (by Blank, Andreas); 11. 8. Leibniz vs. Foucher: Is there anything wrong with the Systeme Nouveau? (by Mendonca, Marta); 12. 9. Quantification of natural and positive laws: How to organize privileges? (by Boucher, Pol); 13. 10. Leibniz's critique of Pufendorf: A dispute in the eve of the Enlightenment (by Doring, Detlef); 14. 11. Leibniz vs. Jablonski: An intestine struggle on uniting the Protestant camp (by Rudolph, Hartmut); 15. 12. The golden rule: Aspects of Leibniz's method for religious controversy (by Laerke, Mogens); 16. 13. Leibniz vs. Bossuet: Which reasons for Irenicism? (by Fremont, Christiane); 17. Name index; 18. Subject index