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Paul Rateau, Leibniz et le meilleur des mondes possibles
No full textFavaretti Camposampiero Matteo. Paul Rateau, Leibniz et le meilleur des mondes possibles. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 113, n°3, 2015. pp. 515-517
Ronan de Calan, Généalogie de la sensation. Physique, physiologie et psychologie en Europe, de Fernel à Locke
No full textFavaretti Camposampiero Matteo. Ronan de Calan, Généalogie de la sensation. Physique, physiologie et psychologie en Europe, de Fernel à Locke. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 111, n°3, 2013. pp. 577-579
P. Pimpinella: Wolff e Baumgarten. Studi di terminologia filosofica, Olschki, Firenze, 2005
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Varia a me cogitantur. Leibniz e i fondamenti della conoscenza empirica
No full textDespite the importance Leibniz ascribed to factual or empirical knowledge, scholars did not pay much attention to his reflections on this subject. It is well-known that Leibniz maintained that there are some primary truths among the so-called truths of fact as well as among the truths of reason, but the nature, scope, and role of the primary truths of fact still remain unclear. The present paper aims to account for Leibniz’s commitment to the existence of such truths, by clarifying some of the epistemic properties he ascribed to them – first of all their indubitability and indemonstrability. The explanation I propose is that Leibniz’s claims are rooted in his long-standing doctrine of the infallibility of immediate perception, which must be read in the context of his theory of perceptual error
Bodies of Inference: Christian Wolff’s Epistemology of the Life Sciences and Medicine
No full textThis paper explores Christian Wolff’s attempt to introduce his scientific method in the life sciences and medicine. As one can expect in the light of recent scholarship, Wolff firmly relies on experience and shares Pitcairne’s conviction that physicians should imitate astronomers in basing their claims on observations. However, Wolff’s rational foundation of medicine also highlights the heuristic value of hypotheses, the use of a priori explanations in pathology, the teleological character and metaphysical import of physiological and medical concepts. Thus, his epistemological attitude towards living beings represents an interesting alternative to the purely empirical trend in early modern medicine
Paul Rateau, Leibniz et le meilleur des mondes possibles, Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2015
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Before Judging: Leibniz on the Ultimate Origin of Error
No full textThis paper aims to reconstruct Leibniz’s theory of error in the light of his\ud
metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. In the Discourse on Metaphysics, §14, Leibniz\ud
claims both that all of our perceptions are true because they always conform to one of\ud
God’s views of the universe and that only judgments can be false because they «come\ud
from ourselves». Starting from these claims, the first section discusses different\ud
readings of the veridicality principle and contrasts it with texts where Leibniz admits\ud
that even pre-judgmental items such as perceptual appearances can be false. Leibniz\ud
has, in fact, a three-stage account of perceptual error, where imagination plays a\ud
central role. The second section investigates Leibniz’s account of judgment and its\ud
possible voluntary suspension in order to clarify the step from perceiving to judging.\ud
The third section focuses on Leibniz’s views on ignorance and lack of attention as\ud
sources of error. The overall conclusion is that errors ultimately depend on the present\ud
degree of the agent’s perfection
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