| Leibniz's Science of the Rational Contributor(s): Grosholz, Emily (Author), Yakira, Elhanan (Author) |
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ISBN: 3515074007 ISBN-13: 9783515074001 Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH OUR PRICE: $53.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy |
| Series: Studia Leibnitiana - Sonderhefte (STL-So) |
| Physical Information: 107 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explicates Leibnizian analysis as a search for conditions of intelligibility, and reconsiders his use of principles and methods as well as his account of truth in this way. Via careful reading of well-known, lesser known, and previously unedited texts, it gives a more accurate picture of his philosophical intentions, as well as the relevance of his project to contemporary debate. Two case studies are included, one concerning logic and the other arithmetic; they illustrate a theory of intelligibility that takes as its central notion "possibility for thought", a notion which allows Leibniz to escape certain traps of psychologism, the pseudo-ontology of empiricism, and the empty forms of logicism, and suggests new approaches for contemporary philosophy. "In this remarkable study, Grosholz and Yakira offer a fresh interpretive and conceptual angle on Leibniz's metaphysics. ...] this study deserves high marks for its subtlety, novelty, and creative insight into Leibniz's modes of inquiry as well as for its philosophical acumen." Annals of Science |