Nicholas Rescher Collected Papers. Gesamtausgabe in 14 Bänden / Studies in Leibniz’s Cosmology

28.02.2007

Englisch

9783938793220

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Nicholas Rescher Collected Papers. Gesamtausgabe in 14 Bänden

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Nicholas Rescher

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Nicholas Rescher is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he also served for many years as Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is a former president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, and has also served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Americna Metaphysical Society, the American G. W. Leibniz Society, and the C. S. Peirce Society. An honorary member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, he has been elected to membership in the European Academy of Arts and Sciences (Academia Europaea), the Institut International de Philosophie, and several other learned academies. Having held visiting lectureships at Oxford, Constance, Salamanca, Munich, and Marburg, Professor Rescher has received six honorary degrees from universities on three continents. Author of some hundred books ranging over many areas of philosophy, over a dozen of them translated into other languages, he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for Humanistic Scholarship in 1984.

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Erkenntnistheorie, Philosophie, Metaphysik, Leibniz

1500 bis heute

Preface - Referential Abbreviations - Chapter 1: THE BEST OF POSSIBLE WORLDS - Chapter 2: LEIBNIZ ON THE WORLD’S CONTINGENCY - Chapter 3: LEIBNIZ ON ONTOLOGICAL PERFECTION - Chapter 4: SOME PURPORTED OBSTACLES TO LEIBNIZ’S OPTIMALISM - Chapter 5: LEIBNIZIAN PHYSICS - Chapter 6: ANALOGY AND PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD IN LEIBNIZ - Chapter 7: COORDINATING EPISTEMOLOGY AND ONTOLOGY IN LEIBNIZ - References - Nicholas Rescher’s Publications on Leibniz - Index of Names