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Continuity in Leibniz and Deleuze: A reading of Difference and Repetition and The Fold
The status of continuity in Deleuze’s metaphysics is a subject of debate. Deleuze calls the virtual, in Difference and Repetition , an Ideal continuum ,...
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‘Individuality’ Before Hegel: Leibniz, Herder, Goethe, Fichte, Schleiermacher, Humboldt, Schlegel
This chapter examines usage prior to Hegel, on the part of Leibniz, Herder, Goethe, Fichte, Schleiermacher, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Friedrich...
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Kant on Extension and Force: Critical Appropriations of Leibniz and Newton
This paper describes Kant’s complex position on extension, showing how it emerges from the various ways in which he reacts to the views of Descartes,...
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Leibniz: The Philosopher-Scientist
In the context of an interdisciplinary approach aimed at pointing out the interconnections between science and philosophy in the early modern...
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Leibniz’ Concept of Possible Worlds and the Analysis of Motion in Eighteenth-Century Physics
The following text describes the development of the problem of the choice of the best of all possible worlds as a fruitful methodological means. It...
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Possibility vs Iterativity: Leibniz and Aristotle on the Infinite
In this paper, a parallel is drawn between Leibniz’s and Aristotle’s notions of the infinite. In particular, the way in which Leibniz reinterprets...
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Perspectives on Leibniz
When Leibniz’s house in Hanover was torn down in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ludwig Kugelmann sent some scraps of wallpaper from Leibniz’s...
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Leibniz and the Problem of Metaphysics
The object of our presentation is not an introduction to Leibniz’s philosophy in the sense that all the main aspects of his thought are explained in...
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Composition as Identity and the Logical Roots of Leibniz’s Nominalism
The paper deals with Leibniz’s ontology and the metaphysics of the aggregate. Concerning the ontology of aggregates, the main aim is to provide a new...
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Leibniz in Context: The Life of a Universal Scholar
When Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz saw the light of day in Leipzig on June 21, 1646, negotiations to end the Thirty Years’ War were taking place in...
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The Notion of Vegetative Soul in the Leibniz-Stahl Controversy
In the controversy that arose between Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Georg Ernst Stahl following the publication of the latter’s Theoria medica vera...
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Leibniz Reception from the Enlightenment to Hegel
In the middle of the eighteenth century, there was an event that not only shook the earth, but also deeply shook many of the human beliefs that had...
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Time-Consciousness, Subjective Idealism, and Personal Identity
This chapter concentrates on the issue of the identity of the self, its temporality, its reflexive self-consciousness, and the classic problem of...
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Some Work for a Theory of Grounding?
In her “No Work for a Theory of Grounding,” Jessica Wilson argues that we have no need for a theory of what she calls Big-G Grounding. The reason for...
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The Windowless Monad
This chapter aims to construct a theoretical framework to be able to develop analyses of critique and popular culture, and more specifically of the...
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Logic of Exteriority
This chapter centers our reading of Deleuze’s contingent (ir)rationalism and on this basis responds to the contemporary Cartesian tendencies in...
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Leibniz’s Doctrine of Reincarnation as Metamorphosis
The Russian philosopher Nikolai Onufrievich Lossky (1870–1965) considered himself a Leibnizian of sorts. He accepted parts of Leibniz’s doctrine of...
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Time-Consciousness, Personal Identity, and Loneliness
Plato, in the Sophist, presciently foretells of a perennial philosophical Battle between the Gods and the Giants, between the idealists, dualists,...