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107From the Metaphysical Union of Mind and Body to the Real Union of Monads: Leibniz on Supposita and Vincula SubstantialiaSouthern Journal of Philosophy 36 (4): 505-529. 2010.
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10The Leibniz-des Bosses Correspondence (edited book)Yale University Press. 2007.This volume is a critical edition of the ten-year correspondence between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of Europe’s most influential early modern thinkers, and Bartholomew Des Bosses, a Jesuit theologian who was keen to bring together Leibniz’s philosophy and the Aristotelian philosophy and religious doctrines accepted by his order. The letters offer crucial insights into Leibniz’s final metaphysics and into the intellectual life of the eighteenth century. Brandon C. Look and Donald Rutherford p…Read more
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7Books Received: Volume 11, Issue 1 (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 11 (1): 173-178. 2003.
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145On monadic domination in Leibniz’s metaphysicsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (3). 2002.I shall proceed in the following way. In parts II and III of this paper, I shall discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the interpretation put forward by Robert Merrihew Adams in his recent book, and I shall expand upon this account, discussing a crucial but hitherto unexamined aspect of the relation between dominant and subordinate monads, reconstructed from Leibniz's letters to Des Bosses and his essays of 1714, _Principles of Nature and Grace and Monadology. In part IV of this paper, I shall…Read more
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666Grounding the Principle of Sufficient Reason: Leibnizian Rationalism versus the Humean ChallengeIn Carlos Fraenkel, Dario Perinetti & Justin Smith (eds.), The Rationalists: Between Tradition and Revolution, Springer. pp. 201--219. 2011.This essay examines arguments offered in support of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) by Leibniz and his followers as well as Hume's critique of the PSR. It is shown that Leibniz has a defensible argument for the PSR, whereas the arguments of his self-proclaimed followers are weak. Thus, Hume's challenge is met by Leibniz, by Wolff and Baumgarten not so much.
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169Leibniz's modal metaphysicsStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2008.In the main article on Leibniz, it was claimed that Leibniz's philosophy can be seen as a reaction to the Cartesian theory of corporeal substance and the necessitarianism of Spinoza and Hobbes. This entry will address this second aspect of his philosophy. In the course of his writings, Leibniz developed an approach to questions of modality—necessity, possibility, contingency—that not only served an important function within his general metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical theology but al…Read more
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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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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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95Vailati, Ezio. Leibniz and Clarke: A Study of Their Correspondence (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (1): 176-177. 2000.
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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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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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103Ariew, Roger. Descartes and the Last Scholastics (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (1): 128-129. 2000.
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91Marion, Jean-Luc. Cartesian Questions: Method and Metaphysics (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (1): 160-161. 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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210Gottfried 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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1The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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127Between 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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197Perfection, 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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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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118Marks and traces: Leibnizian scholarship past, present, and futurePerspectives on Science 10 (1): 123-146. 2002.
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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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99Keller, Pierre. Kant and the Demands of Self-Consciousness (review)Review of Metaphysics 54 (2): 446-447. 2000.
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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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86Descartes' 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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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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172On 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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64Leibniz 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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