Peter Remnant
Biographic Data
| ID | 605386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Remnant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Remnant |
| SIGNATURE | REMNANT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Political Writings
Leibniz is best known as a logician, mathematician and metaphysi- cian; by training, however, he was a lawyer and made his living as the legal and political adviser to a succession of German princelings. Some of the writings in this collection result directly from his official duties; others represent more detached reflections on the nature of justice, authority and the state. Leibniz was born during the last agonies of the Thirty Years War; noti…
Leibniz: New Essays on Human Understanding
In the New Essays on Human Understanding, Leibniz argues chapter by chapter with John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, challenging his views about knowledge, personal identity, God, morality, mind and matter, nature versus nurture, logic and language, and a host of other topics. The work is a series of sharp, deep discussions by one great philosopher of the work of another. Leibniz's references to his contemporaries and his discussio…
Incongruent Counterparts and Absolute Space
Leibniz and Locke: A Study of the New Essays on Human Understanding
This is the first modern interpretation of Leibniz's comprehensive critique of Locke, the New Essays on Human Understanding. Arguing that the New Essays is controlled by the overriding purpose of refuting Locke's alleged materialism, Jolley establishes the metaphysical and theological motivation of the work on the basis of unpublished correspondence and manuscript material. He also shows the relevance of Leibniz's views to contemporary debates ov…
New Essays on Human Understanding
Preface Book I: Of innate notions Book II: Of ideas Book III: Of words Book IV: Of knowledge Notes Reference Index
Descartes: Body and Soul
There is an account of the soul's capacity to activate its body which is frequently attributed to Descartes and, so far as I know, has only once been said not to represent his opinion on this topic. I shall refer to it with, I hope, pardonable exaggeration as the standard account. The earliest attributions to Descartes of the standard account, which I have been able to discover, are in various writings by Leibniz; there is a rather full version i…
Peter Damian: Could God Change the Past?
Histories of philosophy frequently depict the later eleventh century as the scene of a series of bouts between dialecticians and anti-dialecticians — Berengar vs. Lanfranc, Roscelin vs. Anselm — preliminaries to the twelfth century welterweight contest between Abelard and St. Bernard and — dare one say? — the thirteenth century heavy-weight championship between St. Thomas and St. Bonaventure. The bouts took place — no question about that — but wh…
Contemporary Philosophy in Australia
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Contemporary Philosophy in Australia
Peter Damian: Could God Change the Past?
Histories of philosophy frequently depict the later eleventh century as the scene of a series of bouts between dialecticians and anti-dialecticians — Berengar vs. Lanfranc, Roscelin vs. Anselm — preliminaries to the twelfth century welterweight contest between Abelard and St. Bernard and — dare one say? — the thirteenth century heavy-weight championship between St. Thomas and St. Bonaventure. The bouts took place — no question about that — but wh…
Descartes: Body and Soul
There is an account of the soul's capacity to activate its body which is frequently attributed to Descartes and, so far as I know, has only once been said not to represent his opinion on this topic. I shall refer to it with, I hope, pardonable exaggeration as the standard account. The earliest attributions to Descartes of the standard account, which I have been able to discover, are in various writings by Leibniz; there is a rather full version i…
New Essays on Human Understanding
Preface Book I: Of innate notions Book II: Of ideas Book III: Of words Book IV: Of knowledge Notes Reference Index
Leibniz and Locke: A Study of the New Essays on Human Understanding
This is the first modern interpretation of Leibniz's comprehensive critique of Locke, the New Essays on Human Understanding. Arguing that the New Essays is controlled by the overriding purpose of refuting Locke's alleged materialism, Jolley establishes the metaphysical and theological motivation of the work on the basis of unpublished correspondence and manuscript material. He also shows the relevance of Leibniz's views to contemporary debates ov…
Incongruent Counterparts and Absolute Space
Leibniz: New Essays on Human Understanding
In the New Essays on Human Understanding, Leibniz argues chapter by chapter with John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, challenging his views about knowledge, personal identity, God, morality, mind and matter, nature versus nurture, logic and language, and a host of other topics. The work is a series of sharp, deep discussions by one great philosopher of the work of another. Leibniz's references to his contemporaries and his discussio…
Political Writings
Leibniz is best known as a logician, mathematician and metaphysi- cian; by training, however, he was a lawyer and made his living as the legal and political adviser to a succession of German princelings. Some of the writings in this collection result directly from his official duties; others represent more detached reflections on the nature of justice, authority and the state. Leibniz was born during the last agonies of the Thirty Years War; noti…
Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (4 works) · Contemporary philosophy (3 works) · History (3 works) · Analytic philosophy (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · General interest (2 works)