Overview
- Explores connections between Leibniz and his British/Irish contemporaries
- Sheds new light on Leibniz's philosophy and that of his contemporaries
- Considers the reception of Leibniz in Britain and America
Part of the book series: The New Synthese Historical Library (SYNL, volume 62)
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About this book
These essays comprise a first attempt to assess overall the attention awarded to Leibniz’s philosophy in the English-speaking world in his own time and up to the present day.
In addition to an introductory overview there are fourteen original and previously unpublished essays considering Leibniz’s connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. Some of the papers shed new light on familiar topics, including the influence of Hobbes on Leibniz, his relations with Locke and the well-publicised controversy with Samuel Clarke. Others chart less familiar territory, including Leibniz’s connections with Boyle and Berkeley, Wilkins and Dalgarno. And others still break new ground in considering Leibniz’s connections with John Wallis and Margaret Cavendish. There are four concluding papers on the later reception of Leibniz’s philosophy in the English-speaking world, including two on Bertrand Russell and Leibniz, and two on the reception of Leibniz by American philosophers, Peirce and Loemker.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Leibniz and the English-Speaking World
Editors: Pauline Phemister, Stuart Brown
Series Title: The New Synthese Historical Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5243-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5242-2Published: 30 May 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7318-1Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5243-9Published: 19 May 2007
Series ISSN: 1879-8578
Series E-ISSN: 2352-2585
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 250
Topics: History of Philosophy, Philosophy, general, Modern Philosophy