The Leibniz-Stahl controversy

by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,, Freiherr von

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The correspondence between the eighteenth-century mathematician and philosopher G. W. Leibniz and G. E. Stahl, a chemist and physician at the court of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, known as the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy, is one of the most important intellectual contributions on theoretical issues concerning pre-biological thinking. Editors François Duchesneau and Justin E. H. Smith offer readers the first fully annotated English translation of this fascinating exchange of philosophical …

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Full title :The Leibniz-Stahl controversy / G.W. Leibniz ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by François Duchesneau and Justin E.H. Smith.

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The correspondence between the eighteenth-century mathematician and philosopher G. W. Leibniz and G. E. Stahl, a chemist and physician at the court of King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, known as the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy, is one of the most important intellectual contributions on theoretical issues concerning pre-biological thinking. Editors François Duchesneau and Justin E. H. Smith offer readers the first fully annotated English translation of this fascinating exchange of philosophical views on divine action, the order of nature, causality and teleology, and the soul-body relationship.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:New Haven
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:lxxxix, 443 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780300161144, 030016114X
oclc:ocn958841651
LC Classification:B2597
Dewey Decimal:193

Introduction -- Negotium otiosum -- 1. Stahl's preface -- 2. Leibniz's Animadversions concerning certain assertions of the True medical theory -- 3. Stahl's enodations -- 4. Stahl's summary of the principal points of doubt -- 5. Leibniz's exceptions and Stahl's replies.