Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy

Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study Catherine Wilson

This study of the metaphysics of G. W. Leibniz gives a clear picture of his philosophical development within the general scheme of seventeenth-century natural philosophy. Catherine Wilson examines the shifts in Leibniz's thinking as he...

The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715 Thomas M. Lennon

By the mid-1600s, the commonsense, manifest picture of the world associated with Aristotle had been undermined by skeptical arguments on the one hand and by the rise of the New Science on the other. What would be the scientific image to...

The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope Catherine Wilson

In the seventeenth century the microscope opened up a new world of observation, and, according to Catherine Wilson, profoundly revised the thinking of scientists and philosophers alike. The interior of nature, once closed off to both...

History and Strategy Marc Trachtenberg

This work is a powerful demonstration of how historical analysis can be brought to bear on the study of strategic issues, and, conversely, how strategic thinking can help drive historical research. Based largely on newly released...