Leibniz : determinist, theist, idealist /

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Author / Creator:Adams, Robert Merrihew.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Description:xi, 433 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1560715
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Varying Form of Title:Leibniz
ISBN:0195084608
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • I. Determinism: Contingency and Identity
  • I. Leibniz's Theories of Contingency
  • 2. The Logic of Counterfactual Nonidentity
  • 3. The Metaphysics of Counterfactual Nonidentity
  • Appendix: 'A Priori' and 'A Posteriori'
  • II. Theism: God and Being
  • 4. The Ens Perfectissimum
  • 5. The Ontological Argument
  • 6. Existence and Essence
  • 7. The Root of Possibility
  • 8. Presumption of Possibility
  • III. Idealism: Monads and Bodies
  • 9. Leibniz's Phenomenalism
  • 10. Corporeal Substance
  • 11. Form and Matter in Leibniz's Middle Years
  • 12. Primary Matter
  • 13. Primitive and Derivative Forces
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Leibniz Texts Cited
  • General Index