Author | Savage, Reginald Osburn. author |
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Title | Real Alternatives, Leibniz's Metaphysics of Choice [electronic resource] / by Reginald Osburn Savage |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4968-6 |
Descript | IX, 198 p. online resource |
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