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In his doctoral dissertation, completed in 1922 under the direction of Edmund Husserl and published in 1925 in the Jahrbuch für Philosophie und Phänomenologische Forschungen, Dietrich Mahnke proposed a very valuable overview of the so-called “Leibniz Renaissance”. As indicated by the choice of his title: Leibnizens Synthese von Universalmathematik und Individualmetaphysik, this renaissance was seen by Mahnke as marked by a tension between two Leibnizian programs: that of a “universal mathematics” and that of a “metaphysics of individuation”. His agenda was to propose a way of reconciling these two programs through a point of view inspired by the development of Husserlian phenomenology. In this paper, I will concentrate on the first program, “universal mathematics” or mathesis universalis, and see how the interpretation of this Leibnizian theme was indeed a key point in the demarcation between different ways of articulating logic, mathematics and philosophy at the beginning of the XXth century.
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Rabouin, D. (2012). Interpretations of Leibniz’s Mathesis Universalis at the Beginning of the XXth Century. In: Krömer, R., Chin-Drian, Y. (eds) New Essays on Leibniz Reception. Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives(). Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0504-5_9
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