The appeal of insurance /

Table of Contents: “…How to tame chance : evolving languages of risk, trust, and expertise in eighteenth-century German proto-insurances / Eve Rosenhaft -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's work on insurance / J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg and Christian Thomann -- The slave's appeal : insurance and the rise of commercial property / Geoffrey Clark -- Fire, property insurance, and perceptions of risk in eighteenth-century Britain / Robin Pearson -- A licence to bet : life insurance and the Gambling Act in the British courts / Timothy Alborn -- "The rules of prudence" : political liberalism and life assurance in the nineteenth century / Liz McFall -- Honesty, fidelity, and insurance in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England / Gregory Anderson -- Competing appeals : the rise of mixed welfare economies in Europe, 1850-1945 / Martin Lengwiler -- Employers and industrial accident insurance in Spain, 1900-1963 / Jero|nia Pons Pons -- Five ironies of insurance / Aaron Doyle and Richard Ericson.…”
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Wer sucht, kann gefunden werden : Problemgeschichten der Wissensorganisation von der Scholastik bis zur Suchmaschinenforschung / by Schrade, Robin

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Philosophy of mind

Modern philosophy : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / by Francks, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Spinoza's pantheism -- The attribute of thought -- Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- The Principle of Sufficient Reason -- The best of all possible worlds -- The world as explicable: Monadology -- Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic -- John Locke -- On living in the world: Locke on the contents of the mind -- Locke on nature (and our knowledge of it) -- The life of man: Locke's political thought -- George Berkeley -- Denying the obvious: Berkeley's radical reinterpretation of human experience -- Berkeley's disproof of the existence of matter -- David Hume -- Hume's project for a new science: what it is, how it works, and an example -- The failure of the project -- The lessons of Hume: where do we go from here?…”
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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.…”

Leibniz and the rational order of nature / by Rutherford, Donald, 1957-

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The Princeton companion to mathematics /

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Modern philosophy : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / by Francks, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Spinoza's pantheism -- The attribute of thought -- Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man -- pt. 3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The principle of sufficient reason -- The best of all possible worlds -- The world as explicable: Monadology -- Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic -- pt. 4. …”
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Wer sucht, kann gefunden werden : Problemgeschichten der Wissensorganisation von der Scholastik bis zur Suchmaschinenforschung / by Schrade, Robin

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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 Calculus Gallery : Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue. by Dunham, William

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Beckett/philosophy /

Table of Contents: “…Samuel Beckett, Wilhelm Windelband and Nominalist PhilosophyMonadology: Samuel Beckett and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- “The Books are in the Study as Beforeâ€?…”
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Who rules the world : Divine providence and the existence of evil / by Schwarz, Hans, 1939-

Table of Contents: “…John Calvin: The World Is Governed in All of Its Parts by Divine Providence -- Martin Luther: Though There Is Turmoil God Rules Supreme -- 5: The Enlightenment -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Necessity of Evil -- Voltaire: Where Is God? …”
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Erhard Weigel (1625-1699) und seine Schüler - Beiträge des 7. Erhard-Weigel-Kolloquiums 2014. by Habermann, Katharina, Herbst, Klaus-Dieter

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Die intelligente Kulturorganisation : Management von Informations- und Wissensnetzwerken im Theaterbetrieb / by Heidelberger, Ellen

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Leibniz : an intellectual biography / by Antognazza, Maria Rosa, 1964-

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The tangled origins of the Leibnizian calculus : a case study of a mathematical revolution / by Brown, Richard C.

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The practice of reason : Leibniz and his controversies /

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Postnaturalism : Frankenstein, film, and the anthropotechnical interface / by Denson, Shane

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