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Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz

Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz

Smith, Justin E. H.
Nachtomy, Ohad

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Series: New Synthese Historical Library, Book 67

PhilosophySports General

ISBN10: 9400734840
ISBN13: 9789400734845
Publisher: Springer
Published: Feb 25 2013
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Preface; Dan Garber.- Introduction; Justin E. H. Smith and Ohad Nachtomy.- 1. Leibniz vs. Stahl on the Way Machines of Nature Operate; François Duchesneau.- 2. Leibniz's Animals: Where Teleology Meets Mechanism; Glenn Hartz.- 3. Monads and Machines; Pauline Phemister.- 4. Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines: or What it Means to 'Remain a Machine to the Least of its Parts'; Ohad Nachtomy.- 5. The Organic vs. the Living in the Light of Leibniz's Aristotelianisms; Enrico Pasini.- 6. The Machine Analogy in Medicine: A Comparative Approach to Leib-niz and His Contemporaries; Raphaële Andrault.- 7. Sennert and Leibniz on Animate Atoms; Andreas Blank.- 8. Continuity or Discontinuity? Some Remarks on Leibniz's Concepts of 'Substantia Vivens' and 'Organism'; Antonio Nunziante.- 9. The Organism, or the Machine of Nature: Some Remarks on the Status of Organism in the Substantial Composition; Jeanne Roland.- 10. Action, Perception, Organisation; Anne-Lise Rey.- 11. Perceiving Machines: Leibniz's Teleological Approach to Perception; Evelyn Vargas.- Bibliography.- Name Index.- Subject Index.

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