Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Smith, Justin E. H. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Nachtomy, Ohad (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Σειρά: The New Synthese Historical Library ; 67
• Θέματα: 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...