Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Smith, Justin E. H. (Editor), Nachtomy, Ohad (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: The New Synthese Historical Library ; 67
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Metaphysics.; Ontology.; History of Science.; History of Philosophy.

In recent decades, there has been much scholarly controversy as to the basic ontological commitments of the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). The old picture of his thought as strictly idealistic, or committed to the ultimate reduction of bodies to the activity of mind, has come und...