A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz's Physics and Philosophy free ebook download.

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Author(s):	Jeffrey K. McDonough

Date:	2021	Format:	rar	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0197629075
Pages:	248	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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A rival to Isaac Newton in mathematics and physics, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz believed that our world the best of all possible worlds must be governed by a principle of optimality. This book explores Leibniz's pursuit of optimality in five of his most important works in natural philosophy
and shows how his principle of optimality bridges his scientific and philosophical studies. The first chapter explores Leibniz's work on the laws of optics and its implications for his defense of natural teleology. The second chapter examines Leibniz's work on the breaking strength of rigid beams
and its implications for his thinking about the metaphysical foundations of the material world. The third chapter revisits Leibniz's famous defense of the conservation of and proposes a novel account of the origin of Leibniz's mature natural philosophy. The fourth chapter takes up Leibniz's
efforts to determine the shape of freely hanging chains the so-called problem of the catenary and shows how that work provides an illuminating model for his thinking about the teleological structure of wills. Finally, the fifth chapter uses Leibniz's derivation of the path of quickest descent his
solution to the so-called problem of the Brachistochrone and its historical context as a springboard for an exploration of the legacy of Leibniz's physics. The book closes with a brief discussion of the systematicity of Leibniz's thinking in philosophy and the natural sciences.
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