Leibniz and the English-Speaking World (The New Synthese Historical Library Book 62)

These essays comprise a first attempt to assess overall the attention awarded to Leibniz’s philosophy in the English-speaking world in his own time and up to the present day. In addition to an introductory overview there are fourteen original and previously unpublished essays considering Leibniz’s connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. Some of the papers shed new light on familiar topics, including the influence of Hobbes on Leibniz, his relations with Locke and the well-publicised controversy with Samuel Clarke. Others chart less familiar territory, including Leibniz’s connections with Boyle and Berkeley, Wilkins and Dalgarno. And others still break new ground in considering Leibniz’s connections with John Wallis and Margaret Cavendish. There are four concluding papers on the later reception of Leibniz’s philosophy in the English-speaking world, including two on Bertrand Russell and Leibniz, and two on the reception of Leibniz by American philosophers, Peirce and Loemker. Leibniz And The English-speaking World : An Introductory Overview / Stuart Brown And Pauline Phemister -- Leibniz's Debt To Hobbes / George Macdonald Ross -- Tow Opponents Of Material Atomism : Cavendish And Leibniz / Catherine Wilson -- Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz And The Descriptive Nature Of Metaphysical Concepts / Andreas Blank -- Un De Mes Amis : On Leibniz's Relation To The English Mathematician And Theologian John Wallis / Philip Beeley -- Leibniz And Robert Boyle : Reason And Faith : Rationalism And Voluntarism / Stuart Brown -- Leibniz And The Cambridge Platonists : The Debate Over Plastic Natures / Justin E.h. Smith And Pauline Phemister -- Leibniz's Nouveaux Essais : A Contest By Dialogue / Martha Brandt Bolton -- Leibniz, Locke, And The Epistemology Of Toleration / Nicholas Jolley -- Is The Logic In London Different From The Logic In Hanover? : Some Methodological Issues In Leibniz's Dispute With The Newtonians Over The Cause Of Gravity / Gregory Brown -- The Harmony Of The Leibniz-berkeley Juxtaposition / Stephen H. Daniel -- Synechism And Monadology : Charles Sanders Peirce's Reading Of Leibniz / Evelyn Vargas -- How Did Bertrand Russell Make Leibniz Into A Fellow Spirit? / Norma B. Goethe -- Leibniz And Russell : The Number Of All Numbers And The Set Of All Sets / Ohad Nachtomy -- Leibniz And The Personalism Of L.e. Loemker / Robert J. Mulvaney. Edited By Pauline Phemister And Stuart Brown. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 231-240) And Index. Front Matter....Pages I-XV Leibniz and the English-Speaking World....Pages 1-18 Leibniz’s Debt to Hobbes....Pages 19-33 Two Opponents of Material Atomism....Pages 35-50 Dalgarno, Wilkins, Leibniz and the Descriptive Nature of Metaphysical Concepts....Pages 51-61 ‘‘Un de mes amis’’....Pages 63-81 Leibniz and Robert Boyle....Pages 83-93 Leibniz and the Cambridge Platonists....Pages 95-110 Leibniz’s Nouveaux Essais ....Pages 111-132 Leibniz, Locke, and the Epistemology of Toleration....Pages 133-143 ‘‘Is the Logic in London Different from the Logic in Hanover?’’....Pages 145-162 The Harmony of the Leibniz-Berkeley Juxtaposition....Pages 163-180 Synechism and Monadology....Pages 181-193 How did Bertrand Russell make Leibniz into a ‘‘Fellow Spirit’’? * ....Pages 195-205 Leibniz and Russell....Pages 207-218 Leibniz and the Personalism of L. E. Loemker....Pages 219-230 Back Matter....Pages 231-246 This volume explores the attention awarded in the English-speaking world to German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Complete with an introductory overview, the book collects fourteen essays that consider Leibniz’s connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the later reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy. It sheds new light on Leibniz's philosophy and that of his contemporaries. A collection of essays that attempts to assess overall the attention awarded to Leibniz's philosophy in the English-speaking world. This work considers Leibniz's connections with his English-speaking contemporaries and near contemporaries as well as the reception of his thought in Anglo-American philosophy.