Michael V. Griffin

Leibniz, God and Necessity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz which grounds modal concepts in theology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9780521117081
• ISBN-10: 0521117089
• Artikelnr.: 36137537

Autorenporträt

Michael V. Griffin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Central European University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Descartes's arguments for God's existence
2. The ontological argument, the principle of sufficient reason and Leibniz's doctrine of striving possibles
3. Necessitarianism in Spinoza and Leibniz
4. Leibniz on compossibility and possible worlds
5. Molina on divine foreknowledge
6. Leibniz on middle knowledge
7. Leibniz on God's knowledge of counterfactuals.