Leibniz & Leibnitz & Brian Smith

Justin Walsh jwalsh at bigpond.net.au
Thu Oct 11 07:05:01 UTC 2001


Hi Ken!
I looked up Brian Cantwell Smith on one of our largest library networks.
Sadly no knowledge of him. For every person on earth there is also a
philosopher: Kant like Wittgenstein denied that they were philosophers;
merely scientists trying to protect science from partisan thinkers with axes
to grind. I too am suspicious of people who call themselves philosophers. Of
course, a skilled worker, who treats thinking a just another neglected
skill, would I suppose.
I usually get enough about an author from the few lines they express  for
the market.
I'll order it from the public library for $1. That seems good value.
I would like to hear what you think of the book. It will be about six weeks
before I can get a copy.
Cheers
PS I found an extract of the Critique on the web with the original TOC. I
seems pretty good.
And it is FREE

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Kahn" <kenkahn at toontalk.com>
To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 8:33 AM
Subject: Leibniz & Leibnitz & Brian Smith


> Maarten Maartensz  wrote:
> >
> > First, Leibniz spelled his last name "Leibniz" (and not "Leibnitz",
> > "Liebnitz" etc.),
>
> "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz" gets 9680 hits while "Gottfried Wilhelm
> Leibnitz" gets only 856. So maybe you are right ;-). But some sites (
>
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Leibniz/RouseBall/RB_Leibnitz.ht
> ml ) says things like:
>
> From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908)
by
> W. W. Rouse Ball.
> Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (or Leibniz) was born at Leipzig...
>
> My spell checker accepts both spellings.
>
> >
> > Most philosophy is NOT really relevant to computing, and most
philosophers
> > are not really good at anything mathematical.
>
> Agreed. Has anyone here read the book "On the Origin of Objects" by Brian
> Cantwell Smith ( http://www.ageofsig.org/people/bcsmith/ )? My guess is
that
> it is quite interesting. Brian is both a professor of Computer Science and
a
> professor of Philosophy.
>
> Best,
>
> -ken kahn ( www.toontalk.com )
>
>
>
>
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