Overview
- First English book on this topic
- Central topic in the understanding of the development of modern science and philosophy
- Synergetic effect achieved by bringing together two groups of experts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives (PAHP)
Part of the book sub series: Science autour de / around 1900 (PAHPSCIENCE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is a collection of essays on the reception of Leibniz’s thinking in the sciences and in the philosophy of science in the 19th and 20th centuries. Authors studied include C.F. Gauss, Georg Cantor, Kurd Lasswitz, Bertrand Russell, Ernst Cassirer, Louis Couturat, Hans Reichenbach, Hermann Weyl, Kurt Gödel and Gregory Chaitin. In addition, we consider concepts and problems central to Leibniz’s thought and that of the later authors: the continuum, space, identity, number, the infinite and the infinitely small, the projects of a universal language, a calculus of logic, a mathesis universalis etc. The book brings together two fields of research in the history of philosophy and of science (research on Leibniz, and the research concerned with some major developments in the 19th and 20th centuries); it describes how Leibniz’s thought appears in the works of these authors, in order to better understand Leibniz’s influence on contemporary science and philosophy; but it also assesses that reception critically, confronting it in particular with the current state of Leibniz research and with the various editions of his work.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Essays on Leibniz Reception
Book Subtitle: In Science and Philosophy of Science 1800-2000
Editors: Ralf Krömer, Yannick Chin-Drian
Series Title: Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0504-5
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-0346-0503-8Published: 16 March 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0771-5Published: 13 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-0346-0504-5Published: 13 March 2012
Series ISSN: 2504-3714
Series E-ISSN: 2504-3722
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 278
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Philosophy of Science