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18Indivisibilia Vera – How Leibniz Came to Love MathematicsIn Douglas Jesseph & Ursula Goldenbaum (eds.), Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies Between Leibniz and His Contemporaries, Walter De Gruyter. 2008.
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12Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies Between Leibniz and His Contemporaries (edited book)Walter de Gruyter. 2008."The development of the calculus during the 17th century was successful in mathematical practice, but raised questions about the nature of infinitesimals: were they real or rather fictitious? This collection of essays, by scholars from Canada, the US, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland, gives a comprehensive study of the controversies over the nature and status of the infinitesimal. Aside from Leibniz, the scholars considered are Hobbes, Wallis, Newton, Bernoulli, Hermann, and Nieuwentijt. …Read more
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21IntroductionIn Douglas Jesseph & Ursula Goldenbaum (eds.), Infinitesimal Differences: Controversies Between Leibniz and His Contemporaries, Walter De Gruyter. 2008.
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75Why Shouldn’t Leibniz Have Studied Spinoza?The Leibniz Review 17 107-138. 2007.In light of the growing interest in the relation between Leibniz and Spinoza in recent years, I would like to draw attention to earlier discussions of this topic in Germany and France during the 19th century. Stein and Erdmann argued that Spinoza had an impact on Leibniz. According to their critics Guhrauer, Trendelenburg and Gerhardt in Germany, as well as Foucher de Careil in France, Leibniz studied Spinoza only after the main points of his system were already developed. I will show that the w…Read more
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5Why Shouldn’t Leibniz Have Studied Spinoza?The Leibniz Review 17 107-138. 2007.In light of the growing interest in the relation between Leibniz and Spinoza in recent years, I would like to draw attention to earlier discussions of this topic in Germany and France during the 19th century. Stein and Erdmann argued that Spinoza had an impact on Leibniz. According to their critics Guhrauer, Trendelenburg and Gerhardt in Germany, as well as Foucher de Careil in France, Leibniz studied Spinoza only after the main points of his system were already developed. I will show that the w…Read more
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58Why Shouldn’t Leibniz Have Studied Spinoza?The Leibniz Review 17 107-138. 2007.In light of the growing interest in the relation between Leibniz and Spinoza in recent years, I would like to draw attention to earlier discussions of this topic in Germany and France during the 19th century. Stein and Erdmann argued that Spinoza had an impact on Leibniz. According to their critics Guhrauer, Trendelenburg and Gerhardt in Germany, as well as Foucher de Careil in France, Leibniz studied Spinoza only after the main points of his system were already developed. I will show that the w…Read more
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8NamenverzeichnisIn Appell an Das Publikum: Die Öffentliche Debatte in der Deutschen Aufklärung 1687-1796, Akademie Verlag. pp. 945-964. 2004.
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5Moses Mendelssohn - Bedeutender Repräsentant der Berliner AufklärungDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 34 (6): 520. 1986.
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21Leibniz’ Marginalia on the Back of the Title of Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-PoliticusThe Leibniz Review 18 269-272. 2008.
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61Leibniz’ Marginalia on the Back of the Title of Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-PoliticusThe Leibniz Review 18 269-272. 2008.
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18L' Essai de logique de Mariotte. Archéologie des idées d’un savant ordinaire by Sophie RouxJournal of the History of Philosophy 51 (2): 320-322. 2013.
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8InhaltIn Appell an Das Publikum: Die Öffentliche Debatte in der Deutschen Aufklärung 1687-1796, Akademie Verlag. pp. 176-178. 2004.
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504Diotima's children: German aesthetic rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 49 (2): 258-259. 2011.
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19Urban Gottfried Bucher is one of the most surprising authors in early German enlightenment and has been rightly celebrated as a materialist and therefore radical thinker. But he did not teach the same kind of materialism as his contemporary Andreas Rüdiger who leaned toward Locke’s empiricism. Bucher is much closer to Hobbes’ mechanical materialism, to Spinoza’s criticism of free will, and to Tschirnhaus’ extending of the mathematical method to natural science. His explanation of the working of …Read more
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15Appell an Das Publikum: Die Öffentliche Debatte in der Deutschen Aufklärung 1687-1796Akademie Verlag. 2004.Nach einer umfangreichen theoretischen Einführung wird auf der Grundlage von sieben Fallstudien die Funktion der öffentlichen Debatte für die Entstehung bürgerlicher Öffentlichkeit und Aufklärung im protestantischen Raum des Alten Reiches analysiert. Die Untersuchung bietet zugleich einen methodischen Zugriff zur Erforschung der Geschichte von Ideen, der sowohl den Vereinseitigungen der traditionellen Ideengeschichte als auch der sozial- und mentalitätsgeschichtlichen Forschung entgehen will. Im…Read more
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Introduction: doing without free will: Spinoza and contemporary moral problemsIn Ursula Goldenbaum & Christopher Kluz (eds.), Doing Without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems, Lexington Books. 2015.
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Spinoza's evolutionary foundation of moral values and their objectivity: neither relativism nor absolutismIn Ursula Goldenbaum & Christopher Kluz (eds.), Doing Without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems, Lexington Books. 2015.
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27Leibniz's Naturalized Philosophy of Mind by Larry M. JorgensenJournal of the History of Philosophy 59 (4): 684-686. 2021.Larry Jorgensen aims to show that "Leibniz offers a fully natural theory of mind", recommending Leibniz to our contemporary discussion of naturalism. Readers of Leibniz will, however, hesitate to call him a naturalist. After all, he considered natural laws to be subordinated rules below general divine laws and rejected explaining the soul's action by bodily motion. Jorgensen does have a point, though, when he refers to Leibniz's frequent pleas for natural explanations and his continuity principl…Read more
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11Did Moses Mendelssohn Lack Historical Thinking?: A Critique of a Common PrejudiceDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 68 (4): 564-589. 2020.There is widespread agreement in scholarship that Moses Mendelssohn lacked historical thinking, an opinion accepted even among Mendelssohn experts. This misjudgment is based on a remark in his Jerusalem against Lessing’s Education of Humankind and surely ignores Mendelssohn’s historical work. I will question the misjudgment by a detour: first, I will ask for whom Lessing wrote his Education of Humankind. Then I will turn to the usually celebrated origin of historical thinking in Semler and Herde…Read more
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21(English translation of) “Contexte génétique et première réception de la Monadologie. Leibniz, Wolff et la Doctrine de L’harmonie préétablie,”The Leibniz Review 29 185-199. 2019.The many equivocations that, in several respects, characterised the reception of Leibniz's Principes de la Nature et de la Grâce and Monadologie, up until the last century, find their origins in the genetic circumstances of their manuscripts, which gave rise to misinformation published in an anonymous review that appeared in the Leipzig Acta eruditorum in 1721. Archival research demonstrates that the author of this review, as well as of the Latin review of the Monadologie, which appeared, the sa…Read more
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Transubstantiation, physics and philosophy at the Time of the Catholic DemonstrationsIn Stuart Brown (ed.), The Young Leibniz and His Philosophy, Kluwer. 1999.
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History of Western Philosophy |