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Discours de métaphysique by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716

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Protogaea by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716

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Allgemeiner politischer und historischer Briefwechsel. by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

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Finalursachen in der frühen Neuzeit : eine Untersuchung der Transformation teleologischer Erklärungen by Schmid, Stephan

Table of Contents: “…[Kapitel V:] Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz und die Rehabilitation der Finalursache --…”
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The Routledge companion to epistemology / Companion to epistemology

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The Princeton companion to mathematics

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The Princeton companion to mathematics

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Essays on Definition.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Defining Definition -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Isidore of Seville -- Blaise Pascal -- Benedict de Spinoza -- John Locke -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- George Berkeley -- Immanuel Kant -- John Stuart Mill -- Heinrich Rickert -- References -- Name Index -- TERMINOLOGY AND LEXICOGRAPHY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE (TLRP).…”
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Early Modern Philosophy of Religion.

Table of Contents: “…John Locke ; 13. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ; 14. George Berkeley ; 15. Voltaire ; 16. …”
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The Appeal of Insurance. by Clark, Geoffrey W.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 How to Tame Chance: Evolving Languages of Risk, Trust, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century German Proto-Insurances -- 2 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's Work on Insurance -- 3 The Slave's Appeal: Insurance and the Rise of Commercial Property -- 4 Fire, Property Insurance, and Perceptions of Risk in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 5 A Licence to Bet: Life Insurance and the Gambling Act in the British Courts -- 6 'The Rules of Prudence': Political Liberalism and Life Assurance in the Nineteenth Century -- 7 Honesty, Fidelity, and Insurance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England -- 8 Competing Appeals: The Rise of Mixed Welfare Economies in Europe, 1850-1945 -- 9 Employers and Industrial Accident Insurance in Spain, 1900-1963 -- 10 Five Ironies of Insurance.…”
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Modern philosophy : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Francks, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Spinoza's pantheism -- The attribute of thought -- Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- The Principle of Sufficient Reason -- The best of all possible worlds -- The world as explicable: Monadology -- Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic -- John Locke -- On living in the world: Locke on the contents of the mind -- Locke on nature (and our knowledge of it) -- The life of man: Locke's political thought -- George Berkeley -- Denying the obvious: Berkeley's radical reinterpretation of human experience -- Berkeley's disproof of the existence of matter -- David Hume -- Hume's project for a new science: what it is, how it works, and an example -- The failure of the project -- The lessons of Hume: where do we go from here?…”
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Geschichte der Religionsphilosophie von Spinoza bis auf die Gegenwart. by Pfleiderer, Otto

Table of Contents: “…Benedikt Spinoza; 2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; 3. Christian Wolff Und Die Aufklärung; 4. …”
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August 1705? April 1706. by Babin, Malte-Ludolf

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Modern philosophy : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Francks, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Spinoza's pantheism -- The attribute of thought -- Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man -- pt. 3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The principle of sufficient reason -- The best of all possible worlds -- The world as explicable: Monadology -- Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic -- pt. 4. …”
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The practice of reason : Leibniz and his controversies

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Beckett/philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Samuel Beckett, Wilhelm Windelband and Nominalist PhilosophyMonadology: Samuel Beckett and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- “The Books are in the Study as Beforeâ€?…”
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The tangled origins of the Leibnizian calculus : a case study of a mathematical revolution by Brown, Richard C.

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On Leibniz by Rescher, Nicholas

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Germany's 2005 welfare reform : evaluating key characteristics with a focus on immigrants by Walter, Thomas, 1982-

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Fondements philosophiques du concept de probabilité : Ouvrage de référence sur la philosophie appliquée aux sciences mathématiques et à la logique. by De Scheemaekere, Xavier

Table of Contents: “…La théorie classique; De Pascal à Laplace; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; 2.3 Le principe d'équipossibilité; 3. …”
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101 Great Philosophers. by Pirie, Madsen

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Contents; Preface; Thales; Anaximander; Pythagoras; Xenophanes; Heraclitus; Parmenides; Anaxagoras; Empedocles; Protagoras; Zeno; Diogenes; Socrates; Democritus; Antisthenes; Plato; Aristotle; Epicurus; Aristarchus; Archimedes; Seneca; Epictetus; Ptolemy; Marcus Aurelius; Sextus Empiricus; Plotinus; Saint Augustine of Hippo; St Anselm; Roger Bacon; Thomas Aquinas; William of Occam (Ockham); Francesco Petrarch; Desiderius Erasmus; Niccolo Machiavelli; Galileo Galilei; Thomas Hobbes; René Descartes; Blaise Pascal; John Locke; Benedict de Spinoza; Isaac Newton; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.…”
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Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain de Leibniz - Perception et aperception (Commentaire) : Comprendre la philosophie avec lePetitPhilosophe.fr. by Hacken, Étienne

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Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain de Leibniz - La démonstration (Commentaire) : Comprendre la philosophie avec lePetitPhilosophe.fr. by Faivre d'Arcier, Éléonore

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The Leibniz-Stahl controversy by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716, Stahl, Georg Ernst, 1660-1734

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Philosophy and living by Blumenau, Ralph

Table of Contents: “…20: The Reformation21: The Scientific Revolution; PART FOUR: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY; 22: René Descartes; 23: Blaise Pascal; 24: Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza; 25: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; 26: Seventeenth Century Political Thought; PART FIVE: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; 27: The British Pragmatists; 28: The Enlightenment; 29: The Early Romantics; 30: Eighteenth Century Philosophies of History; PART SIX: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; 31: Immanuel Kant; 32: Kant's Successors; 33: Georg Wilhelm Friederich Hegel; 34: Arthur Schopenhauer; 35: Søren Kierkegaard; 36: Utilitarianism; 37: The Notion of Progress.…”
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The Encyclopedia Britannica guide to the 100 most influential scientists : the most important scientists from ancient Greece to the present day / 100 most influential scientists

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Thales of Miletus; Pythagoras; Hippocrates; Plato; Aristotle; Euclid; Archimedes; Pliny the Elder; Ptolemy; Galen of Pergamum; Al-Khwarizmi; Avicenna; Roger Bacon; Leonardo da Vinci; Nicolaus Copernicus; Paracelsus; Andreas Vesalius; Tycho Brahe; Girodano Bruno; Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban; Galileo Galilei; Johannes Kepler; William Harvey; René Descartes; Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke; John Ray; Sir Isaac Newton; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Leonhard Euler; Carolus Linnaeus; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Jean Le Rond d'Alembert; Henry Cavendish…”
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Newton's darkness : two dramatic views by Djerassi, Carl

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Collection, laboratory, theater : scenes of knowledge in the 17th century

Table of Contents: “…The Case of the Library -- Clemens Risi -- The Operatic Stage as an Experimental Space for Affections: -- About the Concepts of Affections Asserted by Athanasius Kircher and -- Claudio Monteverdi -- V -- Vii -- Xi -- 1 -- 9 -- 35 -- 57 -- 75 -- 103 -- 122 -- 146 -- Contents VIII -- Doris Kolesch -- The Cartography of Emotions: Power, Play, and the Politics of Love in -- 17th Century France -- Jan Lazardzig -- Universality and Territoriality: On the Architectonic of Academic -- Social Life Exemplified by the Brandenburg Universität der Völker, -- Wissenschaften und Künste (1666/67) -- Beket Bukovinsk -- The Known and Unknown Kunstkammer of Rudolf II -- Robert Felfe -- Collections and the Surface of the Image: Pictorial Strategies in Early- -- Modern Wunderkammern -- Horst Bredekamp -- Kunstkammer, Play-Palace, Shadow Theatre: Three Thought Loci by -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Olaf Breidbach -- On the Representation of Knowledge in Athanasius Kircher -- Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann -- Pythagorean Musical Theater: Space, Time, and Numerical Speculation -- in the Ancient Metaphysical Fashion -- Florian Nelle -- Eucharist and Experiment: Spaces of Certainty in the 17th Century -- Barbara Maria Stafford -- Artificial Intensity: Images, Instruments, and the Technology of -- Amplification -- Hartmut Böhme -- The Metaphysics of Phenomena: Telescope and Microscope in the -- Works of Goethe, Leeuwenhoek and Hooke -- Samuel Y. …”
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Leibniz : what kind of rationalist?

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Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940 by Grattan-Guinness, I.

Table of Contents: “…Christiaan Huygens, book on the pendulum clock (1673) -- 4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, first three papers on the calculus (1684, 1686, 1693) -- 5. …”
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The shorter Leibniz texts : a collection of new translations / Leibniz by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716

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The Leibniz-Des Bosses correspondence by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716

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