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19Moore's Notes on Leibniz LecturesRussell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 37 (1). 2017.G. E. Moore attended Russell’s lectures on Leibniz in 1899 and kept detailed notes which have been preserved among his papers. The present article prints his notes in their entirety with annotations.
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18Leibniz on Infinite Number, Infinite Wholes, and the Whole WorldThe Leibniz Review 11 103-116. 2001.Reductio arguments are notoriously inconclusive, a fact which no doubt contributes to their great fecundity. For once a contradiction has been proved, it is open to interpretation which premise should be given up. Indeed, it is often a matter of great creativity to identify what can be consistently given up. A case in point is a traditional paradox of the infinite provided by Galileo Galilei in his Two New Sciences, which has since come to be known as Galileo’s Paradox. It concerns the set of al…Read more
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15Review of Andrew Janiak, Newton as Philosopher (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (1). 2009.
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15Exacting a Philosophy of Becoming From Modern PhysicsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 63 (2): 101-110. 1982.
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14Leibniz’s syncategorematic infinitesimalsArchive for History of Exact Sciences 67 (5): 553-593. 2013.In contrast with some recent theories of infinitesimals as non-Archimedean entities, Leibniz’s mature interpretation was fully in accord with the Archimedean Axiom: infinitesimals are fictions, whose treatment as entities incomparably smaller than finite quantities is justifiable wholly in terms of variable finite quantities that can be taken as small as desired, i.e. syncategorematically. In this paper I explain this syncategorematic interpretation, and how Leibniz used it to justify the calcul…Read more
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13LeibnizPolity. 2014.Few philosophers have left a legacy like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has been credited not only with inventing the differential calculus, but also with anticipating the basic ideas of modern logic, information science, and fractal geometry. He made important contributions to such diverse fields as jurisprudence, geology and etymology, while sketching designs for calculating machines, wind pumps, and submarines. But the common presentation of his philosophy as a kind of unworldly ideali…Read more
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13Leibniz: publications on natural philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.This is the first volume compiling English translations of Leibniz's journal articles on natural philosophy, presenting a selection of 26 articles, only three of which have appeared before in English translation. It also includes in full Leibniz's public controversies with De Catelan, Papin, and Hartsoeker. The articles include work in optics, on the fracture strength of materials, and on motion in a resisting medium, and Leibniz's pioneering applications of his calculus to these issues by const…Read more
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12Virtual Processes and Quantum Tunnelling as FictionsScience & Education 21 (10): 1461-1473. 2012.
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12Monads, Composition, and Force: Ariadnean Threads Through Leibniz's LabyrinthOxford University Press. 2018.In this new work, Richard T. W. Arthur offers a fresh interpretation of Leibniz's theory of substance. He goes against a long trend of idealistic interpretations of Leibniz's thought by instead taking seriously Leibniz's claim of introducing monads to solve the problem of the composition of matter and motion.
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11Marginalia in Russell's Copy of Gerhardt's Edition of Leibniz's Philosophische SchriftenRussell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 37 (1). 2017.Russell’s most important source for his book on Leibniz was C. I. Gerhardt’s seven-volume Die philosophischen Schriften von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Russell heavily annotated his copy of this important edition of Leibniz’s works. The present paper records all Russell’s marginalia, with the exception of passages marked merely by vertical lines in the margin, and provides explanatory commentary.
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9The Labyrinth of the Continuum - Writings on the Continuum Problem 1672-1686 (edited book)Yale University Press. 2013.This book gathers together for the first time an important body of texts written between 1672 and 1686 by the great German philosopher and polymath Gottfried Leibniz. These writings, most of them previously untranslated, represent Leibniz's sustained attempt on a problem whose solution was crucial to the development of his thought, that of the composition of the continuum. The volume begins with excerpts from Leibniz's Paris writings, in which he tackles such problems as whether the infinite div…Read more
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9In lively and readable prose, Arthur presents a new approach to the study of logic, one that seeks to integrate methods of argument analysis developed in modern “informal logic” with natural deduction techniques. The dry bones of logic are given flesh by unusual attention to the history of the subject, from Pythagoras, the Stoics, and Indian Buddhist logic, through Lewis Carroll, Venn, and Boole, to Russell, Frege, and Monty Python. A previous edition of this book appeared under the title _Natur…Read more
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8Lo zenonismo come fonte delle monadi di Leibniz: una risposta a Paolo RossiRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 2. 2003.
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7Moore's Notes on Leibniz LecturesRussell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 37. 2017.G. E. Moore attended Russell’s lectures on Leibniz in 1899 and kept detailed notes which have been preserved among his papers. The present article prints his notes in their entirety with annotations.
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7Mario Bunge on Causality: Some Key Insights and Their Leibnizian PrecedentsIn Mario Augusto Bunge, Michael R. Matthews, Guillermo M. Denegri, Eduardo L. Ortiz, Heinz W. Droste, Alberto Cordero, Pierre Deleporte, María Manzano, Manuel Crescencio Moreno, Dominique Raynaud, Íñigo Ongay de Felipe, Nicholas Rescher, Richard T. W. Arthur, Rögnvaldur D. Ingthorsson, Evandro Agazzi, Ingvar Johansson, Joseph Agassi, Nimrod Bar-Am, Alberto Cupani, Gustavo E. Romero, Andrés Rivadulla, Art Hobson, Olival Freire Junior, Peter Slezak, Ignacio Morgado-Bernal, Marta Crivos, Leonardo Ivarola, Andreas Pickel, Russell Blackford, Michael Kary, A. Z. Obiedat, Carolina I. García Curilaf, Rafael González del Solar, Luis Marone, Javier Lopez de Casenave, Francisco Yannarella, Mauro A. E. Chaparro, José Geiser Villavicencio- Pulido, Martín Orensanz, Jean-Pierre Marquis, Reinhard Kahle, Ibrahim A. Halloun, José María Gil, Omar Ahmad, Byron Kaldis, Marc Silberstein, Carolina I. García Curilaf, Rafael González del Solar, Javier Lopez de Casenave, Íñigo Ongay de Felipe & Villavicencio-Pulid (eds.), Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift, Springer Verlag. pp. 185-204. 2019.Mario Bunge wrote his classic Causality and Modern Science more than 60 years ago, and a third revised edition was published by Dover in 1979. With its impressive scope and historical perspective it was a long way ahead of its time. But many of its insights still have not been sufficiently appreciated by physicists and philosophers alike. These include Bunge’s distinction between causation and other types of determination, his critique of the still-dominant Humean accounts of causality as leavin…Read more
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6Mathematischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und technischer Briefwechsel. Volume 4: Juli 1683-1690. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (review)Isis 88 (2): 340-341. 1997.
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3Leibniz on ContinuityPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1986 (1): 105-115. 1986.Leibniz never tired of stressing the fundamental importance of the concept of continuity for philosophy, nor was he shy of attributing major importance to his own struggle through “the labyrinth of the continuum” for the subsequent development of his whole system of thought. Unfortunately, however, his own thought on the subject is something of a labyrinth itself, and from a modern point of view many of his pronouncements are apt to seem blatantly contradictory.Certain quotations seem to commit …Read more
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3In lively and readable prose, Arthur presents a new approach to the study of logic, one that seeks to integrate methods of argument analysis developed in modern “informal logic” with natural deduction techniques. The dry bones of logic are given flesh by unusual attention to the history of the subject, from Pythagoras, the Stoics, and Indian Buddhist logic, through Lewis Carroll, Venn, and Boole, to Russell, Frege, and Monty Python. A previous edition of this book appeared under the title _Natur…Read more
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1Leibniz’s Actual Infinite in Relation to His Analysis of MatterIn David Rabouin, Philip Beeley & Norma B. Goethe (eds.), G.W. Leibniz, Interrelations Between Mathematics and Philosophy, Springer Verlag. 2015.
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Foils for Newton: Comments on Howard SteinIn Phillip Bricker & R. I. G. Hughes (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives on Newtonian Science, Mit Press. pp. 49--56. 1990.
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On the mathematization of free fall : Galileo, Descartes, and a history of misconstrualIn Geoffrey Gorham (ed.), The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century, University of Minnesota Press. 2016.
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Russell's Conundrum: on the Relation of Leibniz's Monads to the Continuum in An Intimate Relation. Studies in the History and Philosophy of ScienceBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 116 171-201. 1989.
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Zenonism as a source for the monads in the philosophy of Gottfried W. Leibniz: A response to Paolo RossiRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 58 (2): 335-340. 2003.