V. De Risi (ed.), Leibniz and the Structure of Sciences. Modern Perspectives on the History of Logic, Mathematics, Epistemology, Springer 2020

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Research on Leibniz’s role in the history of sciences and especially in the history of mathematics has a long tradition. The book edited by Vincenzo De Risi is a remarkable scholarly contribution to Leibniz’s view on the sciences. 

As the title indicates, the focus is twofold: First, it is an investigation into Leibniz’s works on logic, mathematics, and epistemology. It elaborates a far-reaching companion to his contributions to those fields, especially considering them in terms of their function within the structure of science as a whole.

Second, the book stresses the modern perspectives on Leibniz’s role in the history of logic and sciences. Thereby the authors claim to overcome the anachronistic tendencies in traditional readings of Leibniz as the inventor of modern logic, famously displayed by Russell’s analysis in his book on Leibniz. Instead of generalising his innovations, each of the articles focuses on particular systematic topoi and works out comparisons between contemporary questions in mathematical logic or philosophy of science and Leibniz’s way of dealing with similar problems. The volume aims to provide the basis for critical analysis of both the Leibnizian approach to the scientific fields in question and the historical development of the epistemology of logic and the sciences by the end of the 17th century.

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