Real Alternatives, Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Choice
In the `Preliminary Dissertation' of his Theodicy, Leibniz declares himself an apologist for the compatibilist doctrines of original sin, election and reprobation propounded by the theologians of the Augsburg Confession. According to those theologians, man's actions are determined but man...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1998, 1998
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1998 |
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Table of Contents:
- Notes to introduction
- One: Complete Concepts and Counterfactuals
- I. Iintroduction
- II. Complete Concepts: Purpose, Objections, and Replies
- III. Complete Concepts and Counterfactuals
- IV. Complete Concepts and Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Substance
- V. What Makes Accidents Essential?
- VI. Counterfactual Semantics, Roughly Speaking
- Notes to Chapter One
- Two: Deliberation and Counterfactuals
- I. Introduction
- II. Choice and Deliberation
- III. Counterfactual Identity and Creaturely Deliberation
- IV. The Freedom of Creatures and God’s Ideas
- V. Private Miracles?
- VI. Limited Privacy
- Notes to Chapter Two
- Three: Personal and Metaphysical Identity
- I. Introduction One: Theological Background
- II. Introduction Two: Counterfactual Identity and Indiscernibility
- III. The Identity of Indiscernibles
- IV. Personhoods and Identity
- Notes to Chapter Three
- Four: Compossibility and Creation
- I. Introduction
- II. Leibniz and Creatio ex Nihilo
- III. An Alternative reading of Leibniz on Creatio ex Nihilo
- IV. Potential Beings as Eternal Truths
- V. The Dependence of Potential Beings on God’s Mind
- VI. Perception and Relative Creation
- Notes to Chapter Four
- Five: Perceptual Incompossibility
- I. Introduction
- II. Moral Incompatibility
- III. Perceptual Incompatibility
- IV. Specific Perceptual Incompatibility
- Notes to Chapter Five
- Six: Infinite Analysis and Counterfactuals
- I. Introduction
- II. Hypothetical Necessity and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
- III. Infinite Analysis And Counterfactual Truth
- Notes to Chapter Six
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations