Monads and Machines

Phemister, Pauline

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“…The idea of the Pre-established Harmony, and, in particular, the idea of harmonization of actions of soul and body, appear a logical extension of the medieval image of God as "intelligent Designer" and the ultimate authority for all events and actions (cf. Hartz, 2010;Phemister, 2010). Given the performed analysis as a reference point I wish finally to address some general methodological issues.…”

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A socio-cultural history of the machine metaphor

Glebkin¹

2013

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In Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Blow-up, a scene of affection, after enlarging the negatives, transforms into a scene of an attempted or an actual murder. It seems a good image to characterize the change of the initial view of conceptual metaphor from a more precise perspective. The conceptual metaphor theory emerged with the claim that primary metaphors, such as Categories Are Containers, More Is Up, Affection Is Warmth, and even Time Is Money, were determined by the fundamental constants of our perceptual experience; hence, they could not change or evolve, and had no history. Later, however, plenty of studies have provided strong evidence that such metaphors, being much more complicated structures, essentially rest on the cultural-historical ground. The article can be considered as a step in this direction. It addresses the machine metaphor as a cultural-historical phenomenon examining its development from Antiquity to Early Modernity. The author reveals that conceptual machine metaphor appears in the Middle Ages, long before Newton and the Industrial Revolution, in the wake of the transformation of basic elements of the cultural model from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

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“…102-103, 107, 111, 335-344, 361-365;cf. Bertman, 1991;Brandt, 1986;Des Chene, 2001;Hartz, 2010;Nachtomy, 2010;Phemister, 2010). However, there is strong evidence that machine metaphors appeared long before Early Modernity.…”

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A socio-cultural history of the machine metaphor

Glebkin¹

2013

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“…55 Machines of nature, finally, not only differ from artifacts because they have an organic structure that suffer a number of develops that extend to infinity; they also differ by virtue of theirs parts: while artifacts are aggregates of things that are not always artifacts at the same time, smaller machines or artifacts, each machine of nature "is an aggregate of smaller corporeal substances", organic bodies that "are in turn aggregates of even smaller corporeal substances, and so on to infinity". 56 Each part of a living being, in this sense, is a smaller living being that is also composed of other even smaller living beings, conforming an aggregate of machines of nature that are integrated by virtue of an intrinsic teleological organization. 57…”

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Algunas observaciones sobre las críticas de Leibniz a la mecánica

Casales García

2023

metyper

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El objetivo principal de este artículo es analizar algunas de las críticas de Leibniz al mecanicismo, con la intención de comprender sus limitaciones, particularmente aquellas que nos ayudan a esclarecer la distinción entre las máquinas fabricadas por los seres humanos y las máquinas de la naturaleza. Para entender las críticas de Leibniz al mecanicismo, las hemos dividido en tres: 1. las críticas a la concepción cartesiana de extensión; 2. el argumento leibniziano del molino; y 3. la irreductibilidad de los seres vivos a simples máquinas o artefactos.

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“…Con la introducción de un nuevo vocabulario el concepto de sustancia corpórea sufrirá un desplazamiento en sus escritos maduros. En efecto, en los escritos posteriores a 1695 ya no se define en términos hilemórficos, sino que se caracteriza por ser una mónada asociada a un cuerpo orgánico; siguiendo a Phemister (2001), en el período maduro puede hablarse entonces de una concepción hilozoica de la sustancia corpórea 31 . A pesar de este corrimiento semántico, el debate acerca de la sustancia corpórea del período medio constituye un punto ineludible a la hora de comprender la metafísica madura de Leibniz, la cual se construye a partir de las nociones establecidas entre 1677 y 1695.…”

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Leibniz y la noción de sustancia corpórea en el período medio (1677-1695)

Fazio

2017

An. Semin. Hist. Filos.

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En el presente trabajo analizamos la reforma que Leibniz propone entre 1677 y 1695 en la noción de cuerpo y, a partir de ello, esclarecemos el concepto de sustancia corpórea que presenta en esos años. En primer lugar, desarrollamos las críticas que esgrime contra la concepción geométrica del cuerpo propia de los filósofos modernos; en segundo lugar, examinamos los cambios que propone en dicha noción y su caracterización en clave de fuerza primitiva pasiva; en tercer lugar, estudiamos la definición hilemórfica de la sustancia corpórea que ofrece y evaluamos el lugar que ella ocupa en su esquema metafísico.

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Monads and Machines

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A socio-cultural history of the machine metaphor

A socio-cultural history of the machine metaphor

Algunas observaciones sobre las críticas de Leibniz a la mecánica

Leibniz y la noción de sustancia corpórea en el período medio (1677-1695)

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