Pelletier Leibniz and the aspects of reality

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-515-11172-0
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Band Band 45, 149 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Studia Leibnitiana – Sonderhefte.

What is reality? Is it what appears to me, or what appears to most, or even what appears to some minds? Or should it rather be characterised as that which resists, as that which does not depend on me, or as that which exists anyway? And is the sense of 'what is real' actually grasped by such idealist and realist conceptions? German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) addressed the different aspects of this difficult issue through sustained and constant attention. By examining these aspects, the contributions gathered in this volume follow a dual purpose. First, they intend to reflect the diversity of the objects that triggered Leibniz's thoughts. In particular, they provide new insights into Leibniz's understanding of not only the reality of dreams, the properties and relations of things, the soul, and mathematical objects, but also the reality of space and time or the theological problem of the Eucharist. Second, they intend to overcome the overly unilateral debate between the idealist and realist readings of Leibniz's last metaphysics that have pervaded interpretations over the past 30 years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pelletier, Arnaud

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;FOREWORD;6
2;TABLE OF CONTENTS;8
3;INTRODUCTION;10
3.1;AU-DELÀ DU RÉALISME ET DE L’IDÉALISME: LEIBNIZ ET LES ASPECTS DE LA RÉALITÉ;12
4;1. REALITATES: THE THINKABILITY OF PHENOMENA, ACCIDENTS AND RELATIONS;22
4.1;PHENOMENON, ACTION AND COHERENCE: LEIBNIZ’S WAYS FROM THE MIND’S EXPERIENCE TO A REAL WORLD;24
4.2;LEIBNIZ ET LES ACCIDENTS RÉELS;42
4.3;LEIBNIZIAN PLURALISM AND BRADLEIAN MONISM: A QUESTION OF RELATIONS;62
5;2. RES: ISSUES ON THE EXISTENCE OF BODIES, MATHEMATICAL OBJECTS AND MONADS;82
5.1;LEIBNIZ AND THE REAL PRESENCE OF CHRIST’S BODY IN THE EUCHARIST, 1668–1697;84
5.2;STAHL AND LEIBNIZ ON THE ROLE OF THE SOUL IN THE BODY;112
5.3;PROBLEMS OF MATHEMATICAL EXISTENCE IN LEIBNIZ;124
5.4;MONADEN UND RAUM-ZEIT: EINE MATHEMATISCHE REKONSTRUKTION;140

Über Autor(innen)

Pelletier, Arnaud
Arnaud Pelletier holds a PhD from Paris-Sorbonne University on the issue of categories in Leibniz. He is a former research fellow of the Thiers Foundation (Institut de France, Paris), visiting researcher at King’s College London, fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (at the Leibniz-Archive, Hanover, Germany) and Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher (at the University of Leuven, Belgium). He is currently professor for Modern Philosophy at the Université libre de Bruxelles. His main focus is early modern German philosophy from Leibniz to Kant.