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21Review of mark Kulstad, Mogens laerke, David Snyder (eds.), The Philosophy of the Young Leibniz (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (5). 2010.
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20Leibniz and RussellIn P. Phemister & S. Brown (eds.), Leibniz and the English-Speaking World, Springer. pp. 207--218. 2007.
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19Gene expression and the concept of the phenotypeStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 38 (1): 238-254. 2005.
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18Leibniz et l’individualité organique by Jeanne RolandJournal of the History of Philosophy 52 (2): 378-379. 2014.
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18Response to Ohad Nachtomy’s “Individuals, Worlds, and RelationsThe Leibniz Review 11 125-129. 2001.In her stimulating article, Catherine Wilson considers the moment of worlds-making in Leibniz’s philosophy. She raises the following question: “How do possible substances give rise to possible worlds?“ and observes that the moment of world-making is as puzzling as it is interesting. In section 2 of her article, Wilson considers two approaches to the question. According to the first, possible individuals logically precede possible worlds and possible worlds are constituted either by combinations …Read more
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16Nicolas de Cues et G.W. Leibniz: Infini, Expression et Singularité (review)The Leibniz Review 22 167-173. 2012.
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16This work presents Leibniz's view of infinity and the central role it plays in his theory of living beings. Nachtomy argues that Leibniz employs three degrees of infinity: absolute infinity, which applies to God; maximum or infinite in kind, which applies to created, living beings; and mathematical infinity.
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15Leibniz on Infinite Beings and Non-beingsIn Smith Justin & Fraenkel Carlos (eds.), The Rationalists, Springer/synthese. pp. 183--199. 2011.
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13Response to Richard Arthur's "Leibniz and the Three Degrees of Infinity"The Leibniz Review 32 47-52. 2022.
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9Introduction: Infinity in Early Modern PhilosophyIn Igor Agostini, Richard T. W. Arthur, Geoffrey Gorham, Paul Guyer, Mogens Lærke, Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Ohad Nachtomy, Sanja Särman, Anat Schechtman, Noa Shein & Reed Winegar (eds.), Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-8. 2018.In his Pensées, Blaise Pascal gives vivid voice to both the wonder and anxiety that many early modern thinkers felt towards infinity. Contemplating our place between the infinite expanse of space and the infinite divisibility of matter, Pascal writes
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4Leibniz’s Early Encounters with Descartes, Galileo, and Spinoza on InfinityIn Igor Agostini, Richard T. W. Arthur, Geoffrey Gorham, Paul Guyer, Mogens Lærke, Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Ohad Nachtomy, Sanja Särman, Anat Schechtman, Noa Shein & Reed Winegar (eds.), Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy, Springer Verlag. pp. 131-154. 2018.This chapter seeks to highlight some of the main threads that Leibniz used in developing his views on infinity in his early years in Paris. In particular, I will be focusing on Leibniz’s encounters with Descartes, Galileo, and Spinoza. Through these encounters, some of the most significant features of Leibniz’s view of infinity will begin to emerge. Leibniz’s response to Descartes reveals his positive attitude to infinity. He rejects Descartes’s view that, since we are finite, we cannot comprehe…Read more
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A Leibnizian Approach to PossibilityDissertation, Columbia University. 1998.This work develops a Leibnizian approach to possibility by explicating the notions of possibility in general, in chapter 1; possible individuals in chapter 2; possible worlds in chapter 3; and actualization in chapter 4. ;A Leibnizian notion of possibility is characterized against the traditional view of an intelligible realm of thoughts in God's mind. It is understood in terms of self-consistent thoughts and is developed by explicating the notions of thought and of possibility in terms of the c…Read more
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The individual's place in the logical space: Leibniz on possible individuals and their relationsStudia Leibnitiana 30 (2): 161-177. 1998.La communication qui suit porte sur le concept de relation tel que le définit Leibniz dans sa correspondance avec Arnauld. La première partie présente trois des présupposés impliqués dans ce concept, à savoir 1) qu'il y a des relations entre des individus possibles, 2) que ces relations sont nécessaires à la notion de mondes possibles et 3) qu'elles sont également nécessaires pour compléter l'individuation des individus possibles. Dans la deuxième partie, on verra que le premier présupposé sembl…Read more
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Technion, Israel Institute of TechnologyProfessor
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Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy |