The Leibniz–Stahl Controversy (The Yale Leibniz Series) - Hardcover

Leibniz, G. W.; Duchesneau, François; Smith, Justin E. H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 030016114X ISBN 13: 9780300161144

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The first unabridged English translation of the correspondence between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Georg Ernst Stahl detailing their opposing philosophies The correspondence between the eighteenth-century mathematician and philosopher G. W. Leibniz and G. E. Stahl, a chemist and physician at the court of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, known as the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy, is one of the most important intellectual contributions on theoretical issues concerning pre-biological thinking. Editors Francois Duchesneau and Justin E. H. Smith offer readers the first fully annotated English translation of this fascinating exchange of philosophical views on divine action, the order of nature, causality and teleology, and the soul-body relationship.

About this title

Review:

"[This book] makes a decisive contribution to our understanding of Leibniz's thought"-Richard T. W. Arthur, Isis

About the Author:

Francois Duchesneau is a professor at the Universite de Montreal and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. Justin E. H. Smith is professor of history and philosophy of science at the Universite Paris 7 Diderot.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 030016114X
• ISBN 13: 9780300161144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 536