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.