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Catherine Wilson on Leibniz's Metaphysics*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Kathleen Okruhlik
Kathleen Okruhlik
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario
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Extract

Anyone preparing to work through Catherine Wilson's important 1989 book, Leibniz's Metaphysics, would be well advised to go back for another look at Bertrand Russell's Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, for it is this book that provides the foil and the context for much that Wilson has to say. In particular, the preface to Russell's first edition stresses the very points regarding both methodology and content on which Wilson will disagree most vigorously with her predecessor.

Type
Critical Notices/Études critiques
Information
Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , Fall 1994 , pp. 725 - 732
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1994

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Notes

1 Russell, Bertrand, A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, 2nd ed. (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1937), pp. xi–xii.Google Scholar

2 Ibid., pp. xiii–xiv.

3 Garber, Daniel, “Leibniz and the Foundations of Physics: The Middle Years,” in The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz, edited by Okruhlik, K. and Brown, J. (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1985), pp. 27–130.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 See, for example, Cover, J. A. and Hartz, G., “Space and Time in the Leibnizian Metaphysic,” Nous, 22 (1988): 439–519. See also recent work on space and time by Michael Friedman and John Earman.Google Scholar