Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716

Beckett / philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Monadology: Samuel Beckett and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz /…”

The Princeton companion to mathematics /

Table of Contents:

Philosophy 101 : from Plato and Socrates to ethics and metaphysics, an essential primer on the history of thought / by Kleinman, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) -- Hard determinism -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) -- The trolley problem -- Realism -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) -- Dualism -- Utilitarianism -- John Locke (1632-1704) -- Empiricism versus Rationalism -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) -- René Descartes (1596-1650) -- A-Theory -- The liar paradox -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- Philosophy of language -- Metaphysics -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) -- Free will -- Philosophy of humor -- The Enlightenment -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- The Sorites paradox -- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) -- Aesthetics -- Philosoph of culture -- Epistemology -- Twin Earth -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) -- Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) -- Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Relativism -- Eastern philosophy -- Avicenna (980-1037) -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) -- Phenomenology -- Nominalism -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) -- Ethics -- Philosophy of science -- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) -- Philosopy of religion.…”

Why is there something rather than nothing? : 23 questions from great philosophers / by Kołakowski, Leszek

Table of Contents: “…/ Benedict Spinoza -- God and the world: why is there something rather than nothing? / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Faith: why should we believe? …”

Leibniz : a very short introduction / by Antognazza, Maria Rosa, 1964-

The book of the cosmos : imagining the universe from Heraclitus to Hawking /

Table of Contents: “…/ Heraclitus and Parmenides -- The things of the universe are not sliced off with a hatchet / Empedocles and Anaxagoras -- Atoms and empty space / Leucippus, Democritus, Epicurus, Lucretius -- The moving image of eternity / Plato -- The potency of place / Aristotle -- He supposes the earth to revolve / Aristarchus and Archimedes -- A geometrical argument / Eratosthenes -- No erratic or pointless movement / Cicero -- Turning the universe upside down / Plutarch -- The peculiar nature of the universe / Claudius Ptolemy -- The weaknesses of the hypotheses / Proclus -- Their peculiar behavior confounds mortals' minds / Martianus Capella and Boethius -- We consider time a thing created / Moses Maimonides -- From this point hang the heavens / Dante Alighieri -- If a man were in the sky and could see the earth clearly / Nicole Oresme -- A single universe in which each star influences every other / Nicholas Cusanus -- Almost contrary to common sense / Nicholas Copernicus -- The poetic structure of the world / Fernand Hallyn and Thomas Kuhn -- This art unfolds the wisdom of God / John Calvin and Johannes Kepler -- A star never seen before our time / Tycho Brahe -- This little dark star wherein we live / Thomas Digges -- Innumerable suns, and an infinite number of earths / Giordano Bruno -- Neither known nor observed by anyone before / Galileo Galilei -- Galileo and the geometrization of astronomical space / Samuel Edgerton -- This boat which is our earth / Johannes Kepler -- The two books of God agree with each other / Tommaso Campanella -- They hoist the earth up and down like a ball / Robert Burton -- A world in the moon / John Wilkins -- A very liquid heaven / René Descartes -- The eternal silence of these infinite spaces / Blaise Pascal -- This pendent world / John Milton -- But one little family of the universe / Bernard le Bouvier de Fontenelle and Aphra Behn -- Into the celestial spaces / Isaac Newton -- Discernible ends and final causes / Richard Bentley -- The planetarians, and This small speck of dirt / Christiaan Huygens -- A signal of God / William Derham -- The beautiful pre-established order / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke -- An event so glorious to the Newtonian doctrine of gravity / Edmond Halley and "Astrophilus" -- A voice from the starry heavens / Cotton Mather -- This most surprising zone of light / Thomas Wright of Durham -- How fortunate is this globe! …”