Imaginative Animals : Leibniz's Logic of Imagination

Through the reconstruction of Leibniz's theory of the degrees of knowledge, this e-book investigates and explores the intrinsic relationship of imagination with space and time. The inquiry into this relationship defines the logic of imagination that characterizes both human and non-human animal...

Verfasser: Oliveri, Lucia
Dokumenttypen:Buch
Medientypen:Text
Erscheinungsdatum:2021
Publikation in MIAMI:11.11.2021
Datum der letzten Änderung:18.04.2023
Verlag/Hrsg.: Franz Steiner Verlag
Angaben zur Ausgabe:[Electronic ed.]
Quelle:Lucia Oliveri: Imaginative Animals. Leibniz's Logic of Imagination. (Studia Leibnitiana – Sonderhefte, 57) Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021, ISBN 978-3-515-13049-3, 286 S.
Fachgebiet (DDC):100: Philosophie
401: Sprachphilosophie, Sprachtheorie
501: Philosophie, Theorie
Lizenz:CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Sprache:English
Förderung:Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2021 der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
Format:PDF-Dokument
ISBN:978-3-515-13051-6
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-75089595241
Weitere Identifikatoren:DOI: 10.17879/20069448021
Permalink:https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-75089595241
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Through the reconstruction of Leibniz's theory of the degrees of knowledge, this e-book investigates and explores the intrinsic relationship of imagination with space and time. The inquiry into this relationship defines the logic of imagination that characterizes both human and non-human animals, albeit differently, making them two different species of imaginative animals. Lucia Oliveri explains how the emergence of language in human animals goes hand in hand with the emergence of thought and a different form of rationality constituted by logical inferences based on identity and contradiction, principles that are out of reach of the imagination. The e-book concludes that the presence of innate principles in human animals transforms the way in which they sense-perceive the world, thereby constantly increasing the distinction between human and non-human animals.