Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz

By Justin E.H. Smith

Book Overview

Preface; Dan Garber.- Introduction; Justin E. H. Smith and Ohad Nachtomy.- 1. Leibniz vs. Stahl on the Way Machines of Nature Operate; Fran?ois Duchesneau.- 2. Leibniz's Animals: Where Teleology Meets Mechanism; Glenn Hartz.- 3. Monads and Machines; Pauline Phemister.- 4. Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines: or What it Means to 'Remain a Machine to the Least of its Parts'; Ohad Nachtomy.- 5. The Organic vs. the Living in the Light of Leibniz's Aristotelianisms; Enrico Pasini.- 6. The Machine Analogy in Medicine: A Comparative Approach to Leib-niz and His Contemporaries; Rapha?le Andrault.- 7. Sennert and Leibniz on Animate Atoms; Andreas Blank.- 8. Continuity or Discontinuity? Some Remarks on Leibniz's Concepts of 'Substantia Vivens' and 'Organism'; Antonio Nunziante.- 9. The Organism, or the Machine of Nature: Some Remarks on the Status of Organism in the Substantial Composition; Jeanne Roland.- 10. Action, Perception, Organisation; Anne-Lise Rey.- 11. Perceiving Machines: Leibniz's Teleological Approach to Perception; Evelyn Vargas.- Bibliography.- Name Index.- Subject Index.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400700407
• ISBN13: 9789400700406
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"