The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz

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Edited by Nicholas Jolley

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published December 1994, 512 pages, paper

ISBN 0521367697

Leibniz made fundamental contributions not only to philosophy, but also to the development of modern mathematics and science. At the center of Leibniz's philosophy stands his metaphysics, an ambitious attempt to discover the nature of reality through the use of unaided reason. This volume provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the full range of Leibniz's thought, exploring the metaphysics in detail and showing its subtle and complex relationship to his views on logic, language, physics, and theology.

Contributors:Roger Ariew, David Blumenfeld, Gregory Brown, Stuart Brown, Daniel Garber, Nicholas Jolley, Robert McRae, Christia Mercer, G.H.R. Parkinson, Donald Rutherford, R.C. Sleigh, Jr., Catherine Wilson

Contents

1. Introduction Nicholas Jolley; 2. G. W. Leibniz, life and works Roger Ariew; 3. The seventeenth-century intellectual background Stuart Brown; 4. Metaphysics: the early period to the Discourse on Metaphysics Christia Mercer and R. C. Sleigh Jr; 5. Metaphysics: the late period Donald Rutherford; 6. The theory of knowledge Robert McRae; 7. Philosophy and logic G. H. R. Parkinson; 8. Philosophy and Language in Leibniz Donald Rutherford; 9. Leibniz: physics and philosophy Daniel Garber; 10. Leibnizıs ontological and cosmological arguments David Blumenfeld; 11. Perfection and happiness in the best possible world David Blumenfeld; 12. Leibnizıs moral philosophy Gregory Brown; 13. The reception of Leibniz in the eighteenth century Catherine Wilson.