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Leibniz on substance and Change: Between Aristotle and Locke. A Commentary on On Changes
No full textThe Latin draft I present and discuss here (LH IV 7C 85-86)—while being
still unpublished in the Akademie edition—has circulated among Leibniz
scholars in different forms: a transcription (by N. Öffenberger) was included in
the Vorausedition to volume VI.4, but it was excluded from the published volume
because the piece was (correctly) dated beyond its chronological limits.1 Not only
the material data but also thematic affinities confirm the attribution of this draft to
around 1705, the period of the composition of the New Essays. As a matter of fact,
in this text traces of a close confrontation with Locke’s Essay2—and in particular
with one of its most well-known and controversial parts, chapter 27 of Book 2 (an
addition to the second edition of Locke’s masterpiece), devoted to the problems
of identity—are intertwined with logical-ontological topics that recur in Leibniz’s
reflections, such as the structure of predication and the semantics of abstract terms.
The result is an extraordinarily rich, multi-layered analysis, which presents us with
one of Leibniz’s most intensive discussions of topics—essentialism and identity—
lying at the heart of his metaphysics as well as of present-day metaphysical debate
Crisi e rinascite della sostanza: l'eredità leibniziana e l'ontologia analitica da Russell a Kripke
No full textLeibniz et l'inhérence : diu multumque investigavi generalem notionem tuo inesse
No full textFar from having simply blurred logic and ontology in his interpretation of inherence in the Discourse metaphysics, Leibniz never ended up inquiring about this fundamental relation. Thus, he tried to work out a unified theory of inesse, being able to give an account of its different interpretations: the logical, phenomenological, mathematical or properly ontological ones. This theory turns out to be a sort of general mereology, also bound to a theory of conditions. It contemplates the possibility of several applications, going from the foundation of geometry concepts to the monadological explanation of bodies. Within its context Leibniz tries to provide a final clarification of the ontological background of predication
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