Leibniz What Kind of Rationalist?

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Part I Reinterpreting Leibniz`s Rationalism?
1 Leibniz`s Rationalism: A Plea Against Equating Soft and Strong
Rationality ... 17
Heinrich Schepers
2 Leibniz`s Two-Pronged Dialectic ... 37
Marcelo Dascal
3 Leibniz`s Rationality: Divine Intelligibility and Human Intelligibility 73
Ohad Nachtomy
Part II Natural Sciences and Mathematics
4 De Abstracto et Concrete: Rationalism and Empirical Science
in Leibniz ... 85
Philip Beeley
5 Leibniz Against the Unreasonable Newtonian Physics ... 99
Laurence Bouquiaux
6 Some Hermetic Aspects of Leibniz`s Mathematical Rationalism ..... Ill Bernardino Orio de Miguel
7 Symbolic Inventiveness and "Irrationalist" Practices in Leibniz`s
Mathematics... 125
Michel Serfati
8 The Art of Mathematical Rationality ... 141
Herbert Breger
Part III Epistemology
9 Ramus and Leibniz on Analysis ... 155
Andreas Blank
10 Locke, Leibniz, and Hume on Form and Experience.
Emily Rolfe Grosholz
11 Leibniz`s Conception of Natural Explanation ... 183
Marta de Mendon?a
12 The Role of Metaphor in Leibniz`s Epistemology ... 199
Cristina Marras
13 What Is the Foundation of Knowledge? Leibniz and the Amphibology of Intuition ... 213
Marine Picon
Part IV Law
14 Leibniz: What Kind of Legal Rationalism? ...
Pol Boucher
15 On Two Argumentative Uses of the Notion of Uncertainty in Law in
Leibniz`s Juridical Dissertations about Conditions ... 251
Alexandra Thiercelin
16 Contingent Propositions and Leibniz`s Analysis of Juridical
Dispositions ... 267
Evelyn Vargas
17 Leibniz on Natural Law in the Nouveaux essais ... 279
Patrick Riley
Part V Ethics
I8 Authenticity or Autonomy? Leibniz and Kant on Practical
Rationality ... 293
Carl J. Posy
19 The Place of the Other in Leibniz`s Rationalism ... 315
Noa Naaman Zauderer
20 Morality and Feeling: Genesis and Determination of the Will
in Leibniz ...329
Adeline Dias Cardoso
21 Leibniz and Moral Rationality ... 343
Marline de Gaudemar
Part VI Decision Making
22 Leibniz`s Models of Rational Decision ... 357
Markku Roinila
23 The Specimen Demonstrationum Politicarum Pro Eligendo Rege Polonorum: From the Concatenation of Demonstrations to a Decision Appraisal Procedure... 371
Jeremie Griard
24 Declarative vs. Procedural Rules for Religious Controversy:
Leibniz`s Rational Approach to Heresy ... 383
Frederic Nef
25 Apology for a Credo Maximum: On Three Basic Rules in Leibniz`s
Method of Religious Controversy ... 397
Mogens Laerke
Part VII Religion and Theology
26 Convergence or Genealogy? Leibniz and the Spectre of Pagan
Rationality ... 411
Justin E.H. Smith
27 "Paroles Entierement Destitutes de Sens". Pathic Reason in the
Theodicee ... 423
Giovanni Scarafile
28 The Authority of the Bible and the Authority of Reason in Leibniz`s
Ecumenical Argument ... 441
Hartmut Rudolph
29 Leibniz on Creation: A Contribution to His Philosophical Theology .. 449
Daniel J. Cook
Part VIII The Metaphysics of Rationality
30 For a History of Leibniz`s Principle of Sufficient Reason. First
Formulations and Their Historical Backg