Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Art of Controversies

by Adelino Cardoso, Marcelo Dascal, Quintin Racionero, et al.

Book Overview

Leibniz is known to the wide public and to many scholars mainly as a logician and mathematician, and as the creator of a fascinating but strange metaphysical system. In these, as well as in other fields, his remarkable innovations were achieved by painstaking efforts to establish a fruitful critical dialogue with the leading contemporary thinkers. He was no less important, however, in his practical endeavor to bring opponents to negotiate reasonable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402081901
• ISBN13: 9781402081903
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"