101.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
15
Ohad Nachtomy
Leibniz on the Greatest Number and the Greatest Being
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
In notes from 1675-76 Leibniz is using the notion of an infinite number as an illustration of an impossible notion. In the same notes, he is also using this notion in contrast to the possibility of the ‘Ens perfectissumum’ (A.6.3 572; Pk 91; A.6.3 325). I suggest that Leibniz’s concern about the possibility of the notion of ‘the greatest or the most perfect being’ is partly motivated by his observation that similar notions, such as ‘the greatest number’, are impossible. This leads to the question how Leibniz convinced himself that the notion of the greatest number is self-contradictory and that of the greatest being is not. I consider two suggestions, one that stress the difference between beings and numbers and one that stress the difference between two notions of infinity, and conclude that neither of them provides a satisfactory solution to this question.
|
|
|
102.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
15
Marleen Rozemond
Leibniz:
Nature and Freedom
|
|
|
103.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
15
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Causa sive Ratio:
La Raison de la cause, de Suarez à Leibniz
|
|
|
104.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
15
(LH XXXV, I, 14, bl. 57)
|
|
|
105.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
15
Acknowledgements, Abbreviations Used in Articles and Reviews
|
|
|
106.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
15
Paul Lodge
Garber’s Interpretations of Leibniz on Corporeal Substance in the ‘Middle Years’
abstract |
view |
rights & permissions
In 1985 Daniel Garber published his highly intluential paper “Leibniz and the Foundations of Physics: The Middle Years”. In two recent articles, Garber returns to these issues with a new position - that we should perhaps conclude that Leibniz did not have a view concerning the ultimate ontology of substance during his middle years. I discuss the viability of this position and consider some more general methodological issues that arise from this discussion.
|
|
|
107.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Herbert Breger
News from the Leibniz-Gesellschaft
|
|
|
108.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Glenn A. Hartz
Reply to Philip Beeley
|
|
|
109.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Acknowledgments, Abbreviations Used in Articles and Reviews
|
|
|
110.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Andreas Blank
Reply to Brandon Look
|
|
|
111.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Jérémie Griard
Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe
|
|
|
112.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Stefano Di Bella
Reply to Donald Rutherford
|
|
|
113.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Inherence and the Immanent Cause in Spinoza
|
|
|
114.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Michael J. Murray
Leibniz and His Correspondents
|
|
|
115.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Andreas Blank
Leibniz on Justice as a Common Concept:
A Rejoinder to Patrick Riley
|
|
|
116.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Donald Rutherford
The Science of the Individual:
Leibniz’s Ontology of Individual Substance
|
|
|
117.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Vincenzo De Risi
Leibniz around 1700:
Three Texts on Metaphysics
|
|
|
118.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Brandon C. Look
Leibniz:
Metaphilosophy and Metaphysics, 1666-1686
|
|
|
119.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Peter Loptson
Leibniz’s Body Realism:
Two Interpretations
|
|
|
120.
|
The Leibniz Review:
Volume >
16
Michael J. Seidler
The Gift of Science:
Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition
|
|
|