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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface; Dan Garber
• Introduction; Justin E. H. Smith and Ohad Nachtomy
• 1. Leibniz vs. Stahl on the Way Machines of Nature Operate; François Duchesneau
• 2. Leibniz’s Animals: Where Teleology Meets Mechanism; Glenn Hartz
• 3. Monads and Machines; Pauline Phemister
• 4. Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines: or What it Means to 'Remain a Machine to the Least of its Parts'; Ohad Nachtomy
• 5. The Organic vs. the Living in the Light of Leibniz’s Aristotelianisms; Enrico Pasini
• 6. The Machine Analogy in Medicine: A Comparative Approach to Leib-niz and His Contemporaries; Raphaële Andrault
• 7. Sennert and Leibniz on Animate Atoms; Andreas Blank
• 8. Continuity or Discontinuity? Some Remarks on Leibniz's Concepts of ‘Substantia Vivens’ and ‘Organism’; Antonio Nunziante
• 9. The Organism, or the Machine of Nature: Some Remarks on the Status of Organism in the Substantial Composition; Jeanne Roland
• 10. Action, Perception, Organisation; Anne-Lise Rey
• 11. Perceiving Machines: Leibniz's Teleological Approach to Perception; Evelyn Vargas
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Subject Index.