課程資訊
課程名稱
專題研究:萊布尼茲形上學
SPECIAL STUDY:THE METAPHYSICS OF LEIBNIZ 
開課學期
97-2 
授課對象
文學院  哲學研究所  
授課教師
蔡信安 
課號
Phl7825 
課程識別碼
124 M5540 
班次
 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
星期二1(8:10~9:00) 
上課地點
哲314 
備註
本課程中文授課,使用英文教科書。請先徵得授課教師及申請者同意後,始得選課。
限碩士班以上 且 限本系所學生(含輔系、雙修生)
總人數上限:3人 
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課程概述

萊布尼茲(1646-1716)的形上學與其哲學體系的建立關係密切,對17、 18世紀的德國古典哲學也有重大的影響。本課程將從萊布尼茲的《人類理智新論》、《形上學論》以及其書信集了解其形上學以及哲學的建構,同時輔以當代文獻對於萊布尼茲形上學的解讀。 

課程目標
藉由了解萊布尼茲對所處時代形上學問題的批評以及其形上學問題的探討,使學生能夠發展自己對於形上學問題的看法,也能當中所顯示的語言哲學有所認識。
 
課程要求
修完西洋哲學史
 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
另約時間 
指定閱讀
 
參考書目
原著--
1. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Philosophical Texts, ed. by Richard Francks and
R. S. Woolhouse (Oxford, 1998)
2. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology, tr.
by R. Montgomery (Prometheus, 1992)
3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, New Essays on Human Understanding, edited and
translated by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett (Cambridge, 1997)
4. Philosophical Papers and Letters, edited and translated by Leroy Loemaker.
(Chicago: University Press, 1956)
5. Leibniz and Clarke: Correspondence, ed. by Roger Ariew (Hackett, 2000)

二手資料--
1. Leibniz, Nature and Freedom, ed. by Rutherford Donald, Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press, 2005
2. Adams, Robert Merrihew, Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist, New York :
Oxford University Press, 1994
3. Early Modern Philosophy, Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics, ed. by Christia
Mercer and Eileen O’Neill, New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
4. New Essays on the Rationalists, ed. by Rocco J. Gennaro and Charles
Huenemann, New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
5. Langton, Rae, Kantian Humility, Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves,
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001
6. Mates, Benson, The Philosophy of Leibniz, Metaphysics and Language, New
York : Oxford University Press, c1986
7. Jolley, Nicholas, The Light of the Soul, Theories of Ideas in Leibniz,
Malebranche and Descartes, New York : Oxford University Press, 1990
8. Bertrand Russell, A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz: With
an Appendix of Leading Passages (Routledge, 1993)
9. The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz, ed. by Nicholas Jolley (Cambridge,
1994)
10. Leibniz: Critical and Interpretive Essays, ed. by Michael Hooker
(Minnesota, 1982)
11. Anthony Savile, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Leibniz and the
Monadology (Routledge, 2000)
12. Christia Mercer, Leibniz's Metaphysics: Its Origins and Development
(Cambridge, 2001)
13. Donald Rutherford, Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature (Cambridge,
1997)
14. Hide Ishiguro, Leibniz's Philosophy of Logic and Language (Cambridge, 1991)
 
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No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
口頭報告 
50% 
 
2. 
學期報告 
50% 
 
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
2/17  (1)Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology
(2)Changing the Cartesian Mind: Leibniz on Sensation, Representation and Consciousness ,by Alison Simmons, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 1. (Jan., 2001), pp.31-75.
 
第2週
2/24  (1) Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology
(2) Leibniz on Form and Matter, by Daniel Garber, in Early Science and Medicine, 2, No. 3, (1997)
 
第3週
3/3  (1) Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology
(2) Leibniz's Conception of Metaphysical Evil, by Michael Latzer, in JHI, 55, No. 1 (Jan., 1994), 1-1
 
第4週
3/10  (1) Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology
(2) Leibniz's Theory of Space and Time, by Kaith Emerson Ballard, in JHI 21, No. 1. (Jan, 1960), 49-6
 
第5週
3/17  (1) Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology
(2) Necessay Propostions, by Richard Robinson, in Mind, New Series, 67, No. 267. (Jul., 1958), 289-30
 
第6週
3/24  (1) Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology
(2) Leibniz and Locke on First Truth, by Margaret D. Wilson, in JHI, 28, No. 3. (Jul., 1967), 347-366
 
第7週
3/31  (1) Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology
(2) Leibniz on God's Knowledge of Counterfactuals, by Michael V. Griffin, 108, No. 3. (Jul., 1999), pp. 317-343
 
第8週
4/7  (1) Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology
(2) Leibniz's Predicate in Notion Principle, by C.D. Broad
 
第9週
4/14  (1) New Essays on Human Understanding
(2) “Leibniz and Sleigh on Substantial Unity” in Leibniz, Nature and Freedom, ed. by Rutherford Donald, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
 
第10週
4/21  (1) New Essays on Human Understanding
(2) “Leibniz on Precise Shapes and the Corporeal World” in Leibniz, Nature and Freedom, ed. by Rutherford Donald, Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
 
第11週
4/28  (1) New Essays on Human Understanding
(2) Leibniz and the Two Clocks, by David Scott, in JHI, 58, No. 3. (Jul., 1997), 445-463
 
第12週
5/5  (1) New Essays on Human Understanding
(2) “Leibniz and Idealism” in Leibniz, Nature and Freedom, ed. by Rutherford Donald, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
 
第13週
5/12  (1) New Essays on Human Understanding
(2) “Leibniz and Occasionalism” in Leibniz, Nature and Freedom, ed. by Rutherford Donald, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005
 
第14週
5/19  (1) New Essays on Human Understanding
(2) “Leibniz's Two Realms” in Leibniz, Nature and Freedom, ed. by Rutherford Donald, Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
 
第15週
5/26  (1) New Essays on Human Understanding
(2) “Leibniz on Spontaneity” in Leibniz, Nature and Freedom, ed. by Rutherford Donald, Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
 
第16週
6/2  discussion 
第17週
6/9  discussion 
第18週
6/16  discussion