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Leibniz's Experimental Philosophy

Leibniz's Experimental Philosophy

Pelletier, Arnaud

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Series: Studia Leibnitiana - Sonderhefte, Book 46

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ISBN10: 351511307X
ISBN13: 9783515113076
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Published: Apr 13 2016
Pages: 257
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.71 Depth: 9.41
Language: French
The philosophy of Leibniz is often considered as an intellectualism. Speculation is said to take precedence over experience in it. Against this persistent misunderstanding, Leibniz holds that experience plays a constitutive role in all areas of knowledge, even in mathematics and even in metaphysics. For metaphysics itself shall rely on common experiences and empirical observations. In this sense, one can speak of a true experimental philosophy in Leibniz, which does not reduce itself to a mere explanation of natural phenomena through deduction and induction - which was the understanding of 'experimental philosophy' when Newton coined the term. On the contrary, Leibniz's experimental philosophy seeks to overcome the vacuity of the modest empiricists and the boldness of the so-called 'experimental philosophers'. Without being exhaustive, this volume brings together contributions on the various facets of this experimental philosophy - and on the various aspects of experience itself - from considerations in metaphysics and natural philosophy to Leibniz's project of an encyclopaedia of all knowledge.

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