Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy

Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy

Nachtomy, Ohad; Winegar, Reed

Springer International Publishing AG

09/2018

211

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Inglês

9783319945552

15 a 20 dias

506


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Chapter1. Introduction (Ohad Nachtomy and Reed Winegar).- Chapter2. Infinity in Hobbes and Locke (Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Johns Hopkins University)).- Chapter3. Infinity in Cavendish (David Cunning (University of Iowa)).- Chapter4. The Scholastic Concept of the Most Perfect and Infinite Being: the Background to Descartes's Meditations (Igor Agostini (Universita del Salento)).- Chapter5. Descartes' Distinction between the Infinite and the Indefinite (Anat Schechtman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)).- Chapter6. Descartes on the Infinity of Space vs. Time (Geoffrey Gorham (Macalester College)).- Chapter7. Spinoza's Taxonomy of the Infinite and its Role in Undoing Human Bondage (Sanja Saerman (Hong Kong University)).- Chapter8. The Road to Finite Modes in Spinoza's Ethics (Noa Shein (Ben-Gurion University)).- Chapter9. Actual Infinity in Leibniz (Richard Arthur (McMaster)).- Chapter10. An Unfinished Business: Leibniz and Regis on the World'sInfinity (Mogens Laerke (CNRS, ENS Lyon)).- Chapter11. Leibnizian Encounters with Infinity: Galileo to Spinoza (Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan/Institute for Advanced Study)).- Chapter12. The Myth of the Infinite Given Magnitude (Paul Guyer (Brown University)).- Chapter13. Actual Infinity in Kant (Reed Winegar (Fordham University)).
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