A miracle creed: the principle of optimality in Leibniz’s physics and philosophy A miracle creed: the principle of optimality in Leibniz’s physics and philosophy, by Jeffrey K. McDonough, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 250, $80.00 (hb), ISBN: 9780197629079 [Book Review]

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (6):1289-1294 (2023)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Leibniz studies is a distinctive kind of joy. The seventeenth-century polymath made remarkable impacts in a wide-ranging number of domains and their subdomains. The attempt to study one domain in d...

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1080/09608788.2023.2241052

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 92,497

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz's Physics and Philosophy.Jeffrey K. McDonough - 2022 - New York,NY, United States of America: Oxford University Press.
Review of Jeffrey McDonough’s A Miracle Creed: The Principle of Optimality in Leibniz’s Physics and Philosophy. [REVIEW]Hao Dong - forthcoming - Philosophy of Science:1-5.
Leibniz's Principle, Physics, and the Language of Physics.Elena Castellani & Peter Mittelstaedt - 2000 - Foundations of Physics 30 (10):1587-1604.
Frugal nature: on the principle of optimality in Leibniz’s physics: Jeffrey K. McDonough: A miracle creed: the principle of optimality in Leibniz's physics and philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, 250 pp, $74.00 HB. [REVIEW]Ansgar Lyssy - 2023 - Metascience 32 (3):341-344.
Law and Physics in Leibniz.Hao Dong - 2024 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 62 (1):49-73.
A Miracle Creed, by J. McDonough. [REVIEW]Ohad Nachtomy - 2022 - The Leibniz Review 32:147-152.
Monadology, Information, and Physics Part 3 : Inertia and Gravity.Soshichi Uchii - unknown
Monadology, Information, and Physics Part 3: Inertia and Gravity.Soshichi Uchii - unknown
Leibniz's philosophy of physics.Jeffrey K. McDonough - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Physics and Leibniz's principles.Simon Saunders - 2003 - In Katherine Brading & Elena Castellani (eds.), Symmetries in Physics: Philosophical Reflections. Cambridge University Press. pp. 289--307.
Leibniz on the Metaphysical Foundation of Physics.Daniel R. Temple - 1998 - Dissertation, The University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Localizing Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason—Leibniz on the Modal Status of the PSR.Sebastian Bender - 2022 - Journal of Modern Philosophy 4 (1):11.
L’argomento del “miracolo perpetuo” e i suoi sottintesi teologici. Ancora sui rapporti Leibniz-Malebranche.Francesco Piro - 2017 - Laboratorio dell’ISPF (5):1-20.
Continuidade na lógica de Leibniz.Vivianne Moreira - 2010 - Analytica (Rio) 14 (1):103-137.
The Modal Strength of Leibniz's Principle of the Identity of Indiscernables.Anja Jauernig - 2008 - In Daniel Garber & Steven Nadler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume Iv. Oxford University Press. pp. 191-225.

Analytics

Added to PP
2023-08-26

Downloads
23 (#687,700)

6 months
15 (#174,673)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Tzuchien Tho
Bristol University

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Philosophical Papers and Letters.Martha Kneale - 1957 - Philosophical Review 66 (4):574.

Add more references