Leibniz and the aspects of reality
Edited by Arnaud Pelletier
Paperback (Published)
(December 2015)
ISBN: 9783515111706
6.69 x 9.49 inches
Price: $63.00
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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.
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.
- Edited by Arnaud Pelletier
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