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170On an Unpublished Manuscript of Leibniz *: New Light on the Vinculum Substantiale and the Correspondence with Des BossesThe Leibniz Review 8 69-79. 1998.
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202Leibniz’s Metaphysics and Metametaphysics: Idealism, Realism, and the Nature of SubstancePhilosophy Compass 5 (11): 871-879. 2010.According to the standard view of his metaphysics, Leibniz endorses idealism: the thesis that the world is made up solely of minds or monads and their perceptual and appetitive states. Recently,this view has been challenged by some scholars, who argue that Leibniz can be seen as admitting corporeal substances, that is, animals or embodied souls, into his ontology, and that, therefore, it is false to attribute a strict idealism to him. Subtler accounts suggest that Leibniz begins his philosophica…Read more
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118Leibniz and Adam (review)The Leibniz Review 5 29-32. 1995.The book under review contains a selection of the papers presented at the conference “Leibniz and Adam,” held in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem from December 29, 1991 to January 2, 1992. The object of the conference and the book was to consider the role of Adam, the first man, in Leibniz’s thought and, in doing so, “to provide an unusual view of the interrelations between his metaphysics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, theory of knowledge, logic, attidude vis-à-vis mysticism, philosophy…Read more
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86Tom Sorell, G. A. J. Rogers, and Jill Kaye, eds. Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy: Seventeenth-Century Thinkers on Demonstrative Knowledge from First Principles. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. Pp. xvi+139. $139.00 (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 1 (2): 367-371. 2011.
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Roger S. Woolhouse: Leibniz's' New System'(1695)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 7 (1): 173-175. 1999.
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8Continuum Companion to Leibniz (edited book)Continuum. 2011.With entries written by leading scholars in the field of Modern Philosophy, this Companion is an accessible and authoritative reference guide to Leibniz's life, work and legacy. The book includes extended biographical sketches, and an up-to-date fully comprehensive bibliography. Gathering all these resources in one place, the book is an extremely valuable tool for those interested in Leibniz and the era in which he wrote"--Back cover.
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