Leibniz’s Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms: Between Continuity and Transformation

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by  Adrian Nita (eds.)

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Adrian Nita Editor
Leibniz’s
Metaphysics
and Adoption of
Substantial Forms
Between Continuity and Transformation
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Adrian Nita
Editor
Leibniz’s Metaphysics
and Adoption of Substantial
Forms
Between Continuity and Transformation
Editor
Adrian Nita
Facultatea de Stiinte Sociale
Universitatea din Craiova
Craiova , Romania
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Contents
1 Introduction. Leibniz’s Metaphysics
and the Adoption of Substantial Forms ................................................ 1
Adrian Nita
2 The Individual in Leibniz’s Philosophy, 1663–1686 ............................. 11
Lucio Mare and Roger Ariew
3 Substance, Unity and Identity in Early Leibniz’s Work ...................... 27
Adrian Nita
4 Hylomorphism (Even) Without Matter?
Transtemporal Sameness and the Rehabilitation
of Substantial Form in Leibniz’s Theory of Substance ....................... 43
Stefano Di Bella
5 Essential Differences. Or, an Exercise
in Symptomatic History of Philosophy ................................................. 59
Enrico Pasini
6 Affects and Activity in Leibniz’s D e affectibus ..................................... 73
Markku Roinila
7 Presumption and Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Action .............................. 89
Andreas Blank
8 Corporeal Substances as Monadic Composites
in Leibniz’s Later Philosophy ................................................................ 107
Paul Lodge
9 The Souls of Seeds ................................................................................... 125
Pauline Phemister
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10 The Relativity of Motion as a Motivation for Leibnizian
Substantial Forms ................................................................................... 143
Richard T. W. Arthur
11 Monads on My Mind .............................................................................. 161
Daniel Garber
Contributors
Roger Ariew University of South Florida , Tampa , FL , USA
Richard T. W. Arthur Department of Philosophy , McMaster University , Hamilton ,
ON , Canada
Stefano Di Bella University of Milan , Milan , Italy
Andreas Blank Paderborn University , Paderborn , Germany
Daniel Garber Department of Philosophy , Princeton University , Princeton , NJ ,
USA
Paul Lodge Mansfi eld College , Oxford , UK
Lucio Mare University of South Florida , Tampa , FL , USA
Adrian Nita Department of Philosophy , University of Craiova , Craiova , Romania
Enrico Pasini University of Torino , Torino , Italy
Pauline Phemister University of Edinburgh , Edinburgh , UK
Markku Roinila University of Helsinki , Helsinki , Finland
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