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42Leibniz and Kant (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2021.Leibniz and Kant were the most important figures in German philosophy from the late 17th to the early 19th century. This volume examines the relationships between their philosophies, illuminating fundamental questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical theology, and assessing Kant's understanding of his philosophical predecessor.
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95Vailati, Ezio. Leibniz and Clarke: A Study of Their Correspondence (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (1): 176-177. 2000.
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96Kant on Representation and Objectivity (review)Review of Metaphysics 59 (2): 415-416. 2005.Contrary to most interpretations of the transcendental deduction that take it to depend upon the ideas of personal identity, the “ownership” of mental states, or the ontological unity of the mind, the author argues that Kant’s principal concern is to show how the objective reality of a complex representation is consistent with the spontaneity of the mind. The short answer to this question is that objective reality is consistent with spontaneity precisely because the categories are universal and …Read more
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113Some remarks on the ontological arguments of Leibniz and GödelIn Herbert Breger (ed.), Einheit in der Vielheit: Akten des VIII. Leibniz Kongresses, Hartmann. pp. 510-517. 2006.Beschäftigung mit der Philosophie, selbst wenn keine positiven Ergebnisse herauskommen (sondern ich ratlos bleibe), ist auf jeden Fall wohltätig. Es hat die Wirkung (dass „die Farbe heller“), d.h., dass die Realität deutlicher als solche erscheint. – Kurt Gödel..
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103Cover, J. A., and John O'Leary-Hawthorne. Substance and Individuation in Leibniz (review)Review of Metaphysics 55 (4): 849-850. 2002.
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92Marion, Jean-Luc. Cartesian Questions: Method and Metaphysics (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (1): 160-161. 2000.
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103Ariew, Roger. Descartes and the Last Scholastics (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (1): 128-129. 2000.
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Leibniz's Correspondence with Des BossesIn Paul Lodge (ed.), Leibniz and His Correspondents, Uk ;cambridge University Press. 2004.
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1The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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214Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was one of the great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as the last “universal genius”. He made deep and important contributions to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence, and history. Even the eighteenth century French atheist and materialist Denis Diderot, whose views could not have stood in greater opposition to those of Leibniz, could n…Read more
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199Perfection, power and the passions in Spinoza and LeibnizRevue Roumaine de la Philosophie 51 (1-2): 21-38. 2007.In a short piece written most likely in the 1690s and given the title by Loemker of “On Wisdom,” Leibniz says the following: “...we see that happiness, pleasure, love, perfection, being, power, freedom, harmony, order, and beauty are all tied to each other, a truth which is rightly perceived by few.”1 Why is this? That is, why or how are these concepts tied to each other? And, why have so few understood this relation? Historians of philosophy are familiar with the fact that both Spinoza and Leib…Read more
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129Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes’s MeditationsJournal of the History of Philosophy 48 (1). 2009.In his Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes’s Meditations, John Carriero presents a sustained and sensitive interpretation of this seminal work of modern philosophy. The two worlds of the title are the worlds of Scholastic philosophy on the one side, and of the mechanical philosophy on the other, and it is Carriero’s argument that the Meditations are most helpfully understood against the background of Thomistic Scholasticism. In particular, Carriero shows that there is a deep difference be…Read more
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124Marks and traces: Leibnizian scholarship past, present, and futurePerspectives on Science 10 (1): 123-146. 2002.
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1Leibniz, Kant and Frege on the Existence PredicateIn H. Breger, J. Herbst & S. Erdner (eds.), Natur und Subjekt: Akten des IX. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses, Hartmann. 2011.In this paper, the author examines Leibniz inconsistent treatments of the existence predicate in his formulations of the ontological argument and elsewhere. It is shown that, contrary to expectations, Leibniz at times adumbrates insights often attributed to Kant and Frege.
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193Leibniz and Locke on natural kindsIn Vlad Alexandrescu (ed.), Branching Off: The Early Moderns in Quest for the Unity of Knowledge, Zeta Books. 2009.One of the more interesting topics debated by Leibniz and Locke and one that has received comparatively little critical commentary is the nature of essences and the classification of the natural world.1 This topic, moreover, is of tremendous importance, occupying a position at the intersection of the metaphysics of individual beings, modality, epistemology, and philosophy of language. And, while it goes back to Plato, who wondered if we could cut nature at its joints, as Nicholas Jolley has poin…Read more
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388Kant’s ThinkerJournal of the History of Philosophy 49 (4): 502-503. 2011.Kant’s Thinker is an excellent and important addition to the literature. In it, Patricia Kitcher aims at arriving at a comprehensive understanding of Kant’s theory of the cognitive subject. To this end, she analyzes a central component of the most notoriously difficult part of the Critique of Pure Reason, the theory of the unity of apperception in the chapter on the Transcendental Deduction of the Categories. In Kitcher’s view, the ultimate payoff of such a study is that Kant’s theory can “provi…Read more
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100Keller, Pierre. Kant and the Demands of Self-Consciousness (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (2): 446-447. 2000.
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87Descartes' Konzeption des Systems der Philosophie (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (3): 440-442. 2001.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 39.3 (2001) 440-442 [Access article in PDF] Reinhard Lauth. Descartes ' Konzeption des Systems der Philosophie. Stuttgart (Bad Cannstatt): Frommann-Holzboog, 1998. Pp. x + 227 pp. Cloth, DM 64.00. Reinhard Lauth's Descartes ' Konzeption des Systems der Philosophie is an interesting addition to the literature on Descartes. Written by a renowned scholar of German Idealism, it does not represent an a…Read more
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173On an Unpublished Manuscript of Leibniz *: New Light on the Vinculum Substantiale and the Correspondence with Des BossesThe Leibniz Review 8 69-79. 1998.Notiones sunt Entium, aut Respectuum. Entia sunt Res aut Modi. Res sunt substantiae aut phaenomenae. Substantiae sunt vel simplices vel compositae. Substantia simplex est Monas; Monas autem est vel primitiva Deus, a quo omnia; vel derivativa. Et ha[e]c vel perceptiva tantum, vel etiam sensitiva; et haec vel sensitiva tantum vel etiam intellectiva quae et spiritus appellatur. Rursus Monas vel est Anima corporis vel est separata; haec vel creata (ut plerique volunt etsi ego an creata sint monades …Read more
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1Blumenbach and Kant on Mechanism and Teleology in Nature: The Case of the Formative DriveIn Justin E. H. Smith (ed.), The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2006.
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65Leibniz and AdamThe 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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94The platonic LeibnizBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (1). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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96Idealism and Corporeal Substance in Leibniz's MetaphysicsIn Stewart Duncan & Antonia LoLordo (eds.), Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses, Routledge. pp. 132. 2013.
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142Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750 (review) (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 40 (3): 399-400. 2002.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Journal of the History of Philosophy 40.3 (2002) 399-400 [Access article in PDF] Book Review Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750 Jonathan I. Israel. Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xx + 810. Cloth, $45.00. Jonathan Israel's goal in this excellent book is to show that we cannot fully understand the high Enlightenme…Read more
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282“Becoming who one is” in Spinoza and NietzscheIyyun 50 327-38. 2001.The connection between Spinoza and Nietzsche has often been remarked upon in the literature on the two thinkers.1 Not surprisingly, Nietzsche himself first noticed the similarity between his (earlier) thought and the thought of Spinoza, remarking to Overbeck in an oft-quoted postcard, “I have a precursor, and what a precursor!” He goes on to say, “Not only is his over-all tendency like mine – making knowledge the most powerful affect – but in five main points of his doctrine I recognize myself; …Read more
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95Matter, Inertia, and the Contingency of Laws of Nature in Leibniz and Kant – Some Points of ComparisonIn Stefano Bacin, Alfredo Ferrarin, Claudio La Rocca & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Kant und die Philosophie in weltbürgerlicher Absicht. Akten des XI. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. pp. 147-158. 2013.
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102Review: Westphal, Kant's Transcendental Proof of RealismJournal of the History of Philosophy 44 (4): 665-666. 2006.Brandon Look - Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism - Journal of the History of Philosophy 44:4 Journal of the History of Philosophy 44.4 665-666 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Brandon C. Look University of Kentucky Kenneth R. Westphal. Kant's Transcendental Proof of Realism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. x + 299. Cloth, $80.00. Westphal's book is a rich and exciting contribution to the field of Kant studies. Its claims run counter to much contemporary…Read more
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