Nicholas Rescher

On Leibniz

Expanded Edition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

On Leibniz examines many aspects of Leibniz's work and life. This expanded edition adds new chapters that explore Leibniz's revolutionary deciphering machine; his theoretical interest in cryptography and its ties to algebra; his thoughts on eternal recurrence theory; his rebuttal of the thesis of improvability in the world and cosmos; and an overview of American scholarship on Leibniz.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Expanded edition
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780822962182
• ISBN-10: 0822962187
• Artikelnr.: 36270790

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Rescher was Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and co-chairman of the Center for Philosophy of Science. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he served as president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, the Leibniz Society of North America, the Charles S. Peirce Society, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the Metaphysical Society of America. Rescher was the author or editor of more than one hundred books, including Ignorance (On the Wider Implications of Deficient Knowledge), Philosophical Inquiries: An Introduction to Problems of Philosophy, and A Journey through Philosophy in 101 Anecdotes.