Experience the rich flavors and traditions of Lucca, Italy, through the culinary expertise of Damiano and Massimiliano Carrara, owners of Carrara Pastries. This book invites readers to savor authentic Italian recipes and explore the vibrant culture of their hometown, all while enjoying a delightful journey through the art of pastry-making.
This introduction explores the nature of metaphysics, focusing on its linguistic aspects and the concept of "real being." It questions whether the sense of being is singular or varies across different entities, and discusses the contradiction in claiming something appears to be but is not, highlighting modern analytic metaphysics' perspective on these issues.
Is analytic metaphysics the kind of metaphysics that contemporary analytic philosophers study? One of the aims of this special issue of the Studia Leibnitiana is to demonstrate that it would be misleading to think so. The reason is simply that some important past metaphysicians also adopted an analytic style and G. W. Leibniz is surely one of them. His analysis on the notion of identity and individuality, on the difference between artifacts and biological entities are pieces of analytic metaphysics. The other aim of the volume is to show that there is a close semantic connection between the concepts of individual, mind and body in Leibniz. The book tried to demonstrate it from both an analytical and a historical point of view.