Imaginative Animals
Leibniz's Logic of Imagination
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Beschreibung
Through the reconstruction of Leibniz's theory of the degrees of knowledge, this 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 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.
Autor*in
Lucia Oliveri
Lucia Oliveri is assistant professor at the University of Münster. Her research interests lie in metaphysics and epistemology of the early modern period, with special focus on the philosophy of G. W. Leibniz.
Themen in »Imaginative Animals«
Leibniz on degrees of perception Leibniz on degrees of knowledge Leibniz’s philosophy of language Leibniz on conceivability Leibniz on modality Leibniz and Locke on ideas Leibniz on innate ideas human and non-human animals theory of types Leibniz on space and time Leibniz on similarity and congruence Leibniz on bodies