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Drago, A. (2017b). A Scientific Re-Assessment of Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason. In R. Pisano et al. (Eds.), The Dialogue between Sciences, Philosophy and Engineering. New Historical and Epistemological Insights. Homage to Gottfried W. Leibniz 1646-1716 (pp. 121-140). London: College Publishing.

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• TITLE: The Decisive Role Played by Leibniz in the History of Both Science and Philosophy of Knowledge

  AUTHORS: Antonino Drago

  KEYWORDS: Philosophy, Knowledge, History

  JOURNAL NAME: Advances in Historical Studies, Vol.6 No.4, December 6, 2017

  ABSTRACT: The present paper addresses the criticism of Kant that he ignored both the non-classical reasoning of the empiricists and Leibniz’s attempt to found mechanics anew. By taking into account this logical divergence Kant’s antinomies—actually applying Leibniz’s two labyrinths of human reason to particular subjects—represent two parallel ways of reasoning according to the two alternatives of a dichotomy regarding the kind of logic. By adding a dichotomy regarding the kind of mathematics a new conception of the foundations of the science is obtained. Leibniz’s philosophy of knowledge represents the closest approximation to these foundations in both the history of science and the history of philosophy of knowledge.