Brandon C Look
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandon C Look |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brandon C |
| FAMILY NAME | Look |
| SIGNATURE | LOOK B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Arguments for the Existence of God
This chapter critically discusses Leibniz’s arguments for the existence of God. It explores Leibniz’s improvements on the traditional ontological arguments of Anselm and Descartes, as well as his version of the cosmological argument and his argument from eternal truths. It is suggested that, while Leibniz’s arguments are unlikely to move a hardened atheist, they do offer important insights about the status of the existence predicate, the nature o…
Descartes on Causation - Tad Schmaltz
Journal Article Descartes on Causation – Tad Schmaltz Get access Descartes on Causation. Tad Schmaltz, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 237. Price $ 85.00.) Brandon C. Look Brandon C. Look University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 239, April 2010, Pages 418–420, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2010.659_1.x Published: 02 March 2…
Leibniz's Metaphysics and Metametaphysics: Idealism, Realism, and the Nature of Substance
According to the standard view of his metaphysics, Leibniz endorses idealism: the thesis that the world is made up solely of minds or monads and their perceptual and appetitive states. Recently, this view has been challenged by some scholars, who argue that Leibniz can be seen as admitting corporeal substances, that is, animals or embodied souls, into his ontology, and that, therefore, it is false to attribute a strict idealism to him. Subtler ac…
Leibniz's Metaphysics and Metametaphysics: Idealism, Realism, and the Nature of Substance
According to the standard view of his metaphysics, Leibniz endorses idealism: the thesis that the world is made up solely of minds or monads and their perceptual and appetitive states. Recently, this view has been challenged by some scholars, who argue that Leibniz can be seen as admitting corporeal substances, that is, animals or embodied souls, into his ontology, and that, therefore, it is false to attribute a strict idealism to him. Subtler ac…
Descartes on Causation - Tad Schmaltz
Journal Article Descartes on Causation – Tad Schmaltz Get access Descartes on Causation. Tad Schmaltz, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xii + 237. Price $ 85.00.) Brandon C. Look Brandon C. Look University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 239, April 2010, Pages 418–420, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2010.659_1.x Published: 02 March 2…
Leibniz's Metaphysics and Metametaphysics: Idealism, Realism, and the Nature of Substance
According to the standard view of his metaphysics, Leibniz endorses idealism: the thesis that the world is made up solely of minds or monads and their perceptual and appetitive states. Recently, this view has been challenged by some scholars, who argue that Leibniz can be seen as admitting corporeal substances, that is, animals or embodied souls, into his ontology, and that, therefore, it is false to attribute a strict idealism to him. Subtler ac…
Arguments for the Existence of God
This chapter critically discusses Leibniz’s arguments for the existence of God. It explores Leibniz’s improvements on the traditional ontological arguments of Anselm and Descartes, as well as his version of the cosmological argument and his argument from eternal truths. It is suggested that, while Leibniz’s arguments are unlikely to move a hardened atheist, they do offer important insights about the status of the existence predicate, the nature o…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (2 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (1 works) · Causation (1 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Embodied cognition (1 works)