Leibniz on Compossibility and Possible Worlds. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Brown, Gregory; Chiek, Yual
• Contents: Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Leibniz Confronts Spinoza; 2 The Choice of the Best and the Puzzle of Incompossibility; 3 Interpretations of Compossibility; 3.1 The Logical Interpretation ; 3.2 The Lawful Interpretation; 3.3 Logical/Lawful Hybrid Interpretations; 3.4 The Cosmological Interpretation; 3.5 The Packing Strategy; 4 The Purpose of the Present Volume; References; On the Source of Incompossibility in Leibniz's Paris Notes and Some Remarks on Time and Space as Packing Constraints; 1 My Principle Is: Whatever Can Exist, and Compatible with Others, Exists 2 Preliminary Remarks on Compossibility and Possibility3 Review of Some Background; 4 The Problem: How to Avoid One Large Individual; 5 A Possible Solution: Diversity from the Very Beginning; 6 A Numerical Analogy; 7 Subjects and Predicates; 8 Compatibility and Compossibility; 9 The Assumption of Independence Reconsidered; 10 Packing Constraints: Time and Space; 11 Conclusion; References; Leibniz's World-Apart Doctrine; 1 Introduction; 2 World-Apart in the Discourse on Metaphysics (1686); 3 World-Apart in the New System (1695) and Related Texts 4 World-Apart in the Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence (1706-1716)5 World-Apart and Possible Worlds; 6 Conclusion; References; On Worlds, Laws and Tiles: Leibniz and the Problem of Compossibility; 1 The Puzzle of Incompossibility; 2 Logic, Laws, and Tiles: Three Attempts to Solve the Puzzle; 2.1 The Logical Approach; 2.2 The Lawful Approach; 2.3 The Tiling Strategy; 3 'Leibnizian' Biconditionals and Leibnizian Worlds; 4 Leibnizian Worlds and Two Types of 'Can'; 5 Divine World-Construction, Divine Laws, and Individuals; 6 Spinozism Again?; 7 Conclusion; References Compossibility and Co-possibility1 Introduction; 2 The Logical Interpretation; 2.1 Relational Concepts and Logical Incompatibility: A First Pass; 3 LS1, LS2, and Universal Expression; 4 Problems for the Logical Interpretation; 5 A New Solution; 5.1 Steps Toward Reform; 6 The Reformed Logical Interpretation; 6.1 Preparing the Way for Incompossibility; 6.2 General Concepts and Concept Saturation; 7 How the Reformed Interpretation Is Different from LS1 and LS2; 8 Conclusion; References; Compossibility, Compatibility, Congruity; 1 Introduction; 2 The Logic of the Connected and theUnconnected 3 Laws and Compossibility4 Causal Independence and Conceptual Dependence; 5 Weak and Strong Incompatibility; 6 Congruenter Sentire; 7 Conclusion; References; Leibniz, Acosmism, and Incompossibility; 1 Introduction; 2 The Many Senses of "World"; 3 Acosmism; 3.1 The Created World Is Not Real; 3.2 Why Create More Than One Substance?; 3.3 The ATV and Who Accepts It; 3.4 Incompossibility and Its Problems; 4 Acosmism Resisted; 4.1 Wisdom and Willing Once; 4.2 Objection: Ways as Objects; 4.3 Objection: Why Create at All?; 4.4 Objection: Vacuity; 5 Conclusion; References
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Springer Science and Business Media Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 100; Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Essays; PHILOSOPHY / Reference; Metaphysics; Philosophy, Modern; Metaphysics; Philosophy; Philosophy, Modern; Aufsatzsammlung; Philosophy -- Metaphysics; Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- Modern; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Western philosophy, from c 1900; Philosophy (General); Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- General; History of Western philosophy; Electronic books; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319426958; 9783319426952
• Related ISBNs: 9783319426938; 3319426931
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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