Thursday, 28 December 2023

Henri Ardel

Henri Ardel was the pen-name of French author Berthe Abraham. She won the Prix Botta (a literature and philosophy prize of the Academie Francaise) in 1894 for her novel Heart of the Sceptic.

Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Insufficiency of Mathematics and Role of Monadology

Leibnitz (or Leibniz as he himself spelled his name) was a mathematician who found mathematics at times insufficient, for example, in explicating the underlying causes of mechanical motion. Hence he sought answers in metaphysics. He wrote up his thoughts in Monadology (1909).