Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz
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...
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2011.
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| Series: | The New Synthese Historical Library ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
