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346Leibniz on the Nature of PhenomenaIn Wenchao Li (ed.), Für Unser Glück oder das Glück Anderer: Vortrage des X. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses, vol. 5, Olms. pp. 169-177. 2016.I argue that Leibniz consistently subscribes to the view that phenomena (thus bodies) have their being in perceiving substances. I then argue that this mentalistic conception of phenomenon coheres with three of his doctrines of body: (1) that bodies presuppose the unities or simple substances on which they are founded; (2) that bodies are aggregates of those substances; and (3) that bodies derive or borrow their reality from their simple constituents.
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571Evil as Privation and Leibniz's Rejection of Empty SpaceIn Wenchao Li (ed.), "Für Unser Glück oder das Glück Anderer": Vortrage des X. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses, v. III, Georg Olms. pp. 481-489. 2016.I argue that Leibniz's treatment of void or empty space in the appendix to his fourth letter to Clarke conflicts with the way he elsewhere treats (metaphysical) evil, insofar as he allows that God has created a world with the one kind of privation (evil), while insisting that God would not have created a world with the other kind of privation (void). I consider three respects in which the moral case might be thought to differ relevantly from the physical one, and argue that none of them succeed …Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Ethics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
19th Century Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
Social and Political Philosophy |