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- Creator
- Nicholas Rescher
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Expanded edition
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2013]
- Physical Details
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- x, 406 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822962182, 0822978148, 9780822978145, 0822962187
- OCLC
- ocn794361953, ocn891399919, ocn867740430
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Leibniz on possible worlds -- Contingentia mundi: Leibniz on the world's contingency -- Leibniz on intermonadic relations -- Leibniz and the plurality of space-time frameworks -- Leibniz and the concept of a system -- Leibniz and issues of eternal recurrence -- Leibnizian Neo-Platonism and rational mechanics -- Leibniz and the world's improvability -- The epistemology of inductive reasoning in Leibniz -- Leibniz, Keynes, and the rabbis -- Leibniz and socialized medicine -- The contributions of the Paris period (1672-1676) to Leibniz's metaphysics -- Leibniz finds a niche (1676-1677) -- Leibniz visits Vienna (1712-1714) -- Leibniz crosses the Atlantic -- Leibniz and American philosophy -- Leibniz and cryptography -- Leibniz's Machina Deciphratoria: a seventeenth century proto-enigma machine -- Process philosophy and monadological metaphysics -- Was Leibniz ennobled? -- Leibniz disillusioned: parting ways from J.D. Crafft