Open Court

Introduction: Meditations on Springfield? How many philosophers does it take to write a book about The Simpsons? Apparently, about 20 to write it and 3 to edit. But that's not so bad, considering it takes 300 people 8 months, at a cost of 1.5 million dollars, to make a single episode of The...

EDITOR'S INTRODUCTIONT1JL-Jeibniz was above all things a metaphysician. That does not mean that his head was in the clouds, or that the particular sciences lacked interest for him. Not at allhe felt a lively concern for theological debate, he was a mathematician of the first rank, he made original...