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Philosophical essays /

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Title Proper

Philosophical essays /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

G.W. Leibniz ; edited and translated by Roger Ariew and Daniel Garber.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Indianapolis :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Hackett Pub. Co.,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c1989.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvi, 366 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes index.

Text of Note

Includes selections from Leibniz's correspondence, essays, and other works.

Text of Note

Bibliography: p. xii-xvi.

Text of Note

Part I. Basic Texts -- 1. Letter to Foucher (1675) -- 2. Preface to a Universal Characteristic (1678-79) -- 3. Samples of the Numerical Characteristic (1679) -- 4. On Freedom and Possibility (1680-82?) -- 5. Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas (1684) -- 6. On Contingency (1686?) -- 7. Primary Truths (1686?) -- 8. Discourse on Metaphysics (1686) -- 9. From the Letters to Arnauld (1686-87) -- 10. On Copernicanism and the Relativity of Motion (1689) -- 11. On Freedom (1689?) -- 12. The Source of Contingent Truths (1685-89?) -- 13. Notes on Some Comments by Michel Angelo Fardella (1690) -- 14. Preface to the Dynamics (1691?) -- 15. Dialogue on Human Freedom and the Origin of Evil (1695) -- 16. A Specimen of Dynamics (1695) -- 17. New System of Nature (1695) -- 18. Note on Foucher's Objection (1695) -- 19. Postscript of a Letter to Basnage de Beauval (1696) -- 20. On the Ultimate Origination of Things (1697) -- 21. On Nature Itself (1698) -- 22. From the Letters to Bernoulli (1698-99) -- 23. From the Letters to de Volder (1699-1706) -- 24. To Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia, On What Is Independent of Sense and Matter (1702) -- 25. Letter to Coste, On Human Freedom (1707) -- 26. Response to Father Tournemine, On Harmony (1708) -- 27. From the Letters to Des Bosses (1712-16) -- 28. Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on Reason (1714) -- 29. The Principles of Philosophy, or, the Monadology (1714) -- 30. Letter to Samuel Masson, on Body (1716) -- 31. From the Letters to Wolff (1714-15) -- Part II. Leibniz on His Contemporaries -- A. Descartes and Malebranche: 1. Letter to Countess Elizabeth (?), On God and Formal Logic (1678?) -- 2. Letter to Molanus (?), On God and the Soul (1679?) -- 3. On the Nature of Body and the Laws of Motion (1690?) -- 4. On Body and Force, Against the Cartesians (1702) -- 5. Conversation of Philarete and Ariste (1712) -- B. Hobbes and Spinoza: 1. Dialogue (1677) -- 2. Comments on Spinoza's Philosophy (1707) -- 3. Two Sects of Naturalists (1677-80) -- C. Locke: 1. From a Letter to Thomas Burnet, on the Occasion of Rereading Locke (1703) -- 2. From the Letters to Thomas Burnet, on Substance (1699) -- 3. From a Letter to Lady Masham, on Thinking Matter (1704) -- 4. Preface to the New Essays (1703-05) -- D. Berkeley: 1. From a Letter to Des Bosses (1715) -- 2. Remarks on Berkeley's Principles (1714-5) -- E. Newton: 1. Absolute and Relative Motion, from letters to Huygens (1694. 2. Planetary Theory, from a Letter to Huygens (1690) 3. Against Barbaric Physics (1710-16?) -- 4. From the Letters to Clarke (1715-6)

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General Material Designation

Works.

Date of Publication

1989

Form Subheading

Selections.

Language (when part of a heading)

English.

Philosophy.

Class number

Book number

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,Freiherr von,1646-1716.

Ariew, Roger.

Garber, Daniel,1949-

Date of Transaction

20140210071422.0

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