2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research of the Possibility of Leibnizian Epistemology -Skepticism and Realism-
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14510012
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUDA Tsuyoshi Kobe University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (70222304)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2004
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| Keywords | Leibniz / epistemology / realism / skepticism / knowledge / モナド |
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| Research Abstract |
A new interpretation of Leibniz's philosophy has been tried in recent years by the research representative, Matsuda. Its result has been published as a following book by the support of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2003, Leibniz : on Knowledge from an antiskeptical point of view. In this book philosophy of Leibniz is read as a unique and rich sort of epistemology by which Leibniz confronts with the modern-cartesian and antique-pyrrhonian skepticism. The whole of the book consists of following themes, skepticism and epistemology (ch.1), logic and knowledge : critique of the logist Leibniz-interpretation (ch.2), knowledge and language : semantics of structural analogy (ch.3), knowledge and methodology (ch.4), epistemology and monadology (ch.5). Then from this epistemological point of view, more ontological problems have been treated. Those are the problems of the status of number as a mathematical object, the "ideality" of space and time in the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence and also the body in contrast to Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge. Especially, a realist prospect about the problem of "realism" 'and "idealism" or "phenomenalism" concerning body has been showed with some problems to be solved.
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