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OXFORD READINGS IN PHILOSOPHY EEIBNII: METAPHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE NUNC COCNOSCO EX PARTE THOMAS J. BATA LI BRARY TRENT UNIVERSITY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2020 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/leibnizmetaphysiOOOOunse OXFORD READINGS IN PHILOSOPHY LEIBNIZ: METAPHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Also published in this series The Philosophy of Law, edited by Ronald M. Dworkin Moral Concepts, edited by Joel Feinberg Theories of Ethics, edited by Philippa Foot The Philosophy of History, edited by Patrick Gardiner Knowledge and Belief, edited by A. Phillips Griffiths Philosophy and Economic Theory, edited by Frank Hahn and Martin Hollis Divine Commands and Morality, edited by Paul Helm Reference and Modality, edited by Leonard Linsky The Philosophy of Religion, edited by Basil Mitchell The Philosophy of Science, edited by P. H. Nidditch Aesthetics, edited by Harold Osborne The Theory of Meaning, edited by G. H. R. Parkinson The Philosophy of Education, edited by R. S. Peters Political Philosophy, edited by Anthony Quinton Practical Reasoning, edited by Joseph Raz The Philosophy of Social Explanation, edited by Alan Ryan The Philosophy of Language, edited by J. R. Searle Semantic Syntax, edited by Pieter A. M. Seuren Causation and Conditionals, edited by Ernest Sosa Philosophical Logic, edited by P. F. Strawson The Justification of Induction, edited by Richard Swinburne Locke on Human Understanding, edited by I. C. Tipton The Philosophy of Perception, edited by G. J. Warnock The Philosophy of Action, edited by Alan R. White Other volumes are in preparation LEIBNIZ: METAPHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE EDITED BY R. S. WOOLHOUSE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1981 6 . Lqcj \°^( zs^q Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford 0X2 6DP London .Glasgow New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Kuala Lumpur Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associate companies in Beirut Berlin Ibadan Mexico City Published in the United States by Oxford University Press, New York Introduction and selection © Oxford University Press 1981 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Leibniz: metaphysics and philosophy of science- (Oxford readings in philosophy) 1. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von- Criticism and interpretation I. Woolhouse, R. S. ISBN 0-19-875050-1 Set in IBM Press Roman by Graphic Services, Oxford, England. Printed in the United States of America CONTENTS ABBREVIATIONS vii INTRODUCTION 1 I. LEIBNIZ AND THE LOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR INDIVIDUAL SUBSTANCES 11 by John W. Nason II. MEDITATIONS LEIBNIZIENNES 30 by Wilfrid Sellars (Up NECESSITY AND CONTINGENCY IN LEIBNIZ by Dennis Fried (h (?V.) CONTINGENT TRUTHS AND POSSIBLE WORLDS v by Hide Ishiguro V. LEIBNIZ’S THEORY OF THE STRIVING POSSIBLES 77 by David Blumenfeld VI. LEIBNIZ ON COMPOSSIBILITY AND RELATIONAL PREDICATES 89 by Fred D’Agostino VII. THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LEIBNIZ AND DE VOLDER 104 by L. J. Russell VIII. LEIBNIZ’S DYNAMICS AND CONTINGENCY IN NATURE 119 by Margaret D. Wilson IX. THE VIS VIVA CONTROVERSY 139 by David Papineau X. LEIBNIZ’S LAST CONTROVERSY WITH THE NEWTONIANS 157 by C. D. Broad NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS 175 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FURTHER READING 176 INDEX OF NAMES 180 .
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