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2026:

March: (4-8) worked with Nick on the summing up of our views on relations for the end of chapter 6, and on his chapter 5; (9) sent in my final corrections to the proofs of “Tracing the Origins…” for the Revue de philosophie internationale; (10-31): Nick and I continued working on revising our manuscript and preparing abstracts and keywords for the chapters.

February: (6) refereed Bill Sulis’ “Process and Space” for Entropy; (8-28) worked intermittently with Nick Griffin on corrections for our book, and he supplied the requested Chronology..

January: (4) wrote another dialogue in response to Bill Sulis’ review of my critique of Whitehead, and to his own new article, “Process and Space”, in which he gives his account of the generation of space by means of his theory of “informons”; (18-22) dialogued with Gerard Naddaf about Anaximander and the ancient Greek peri phusos tradition; (23) agreed to review David Rabouin’s Mathématiques et philosophie chez Leibniz (Vrin, 2025) for the Journal of the History of Philosophy; (26) The Vicarage Iconoclast is finally published as a peer-reviewed article in Qeios; (27-30): revised my chapter 6, and sent Nick detailed comments on his chapter revisions for our Russell on Leibniz.

2025:

December: (4) signed the contract with OUP for Nick’s and my book, Russell on Leibniz, which we will now subtitle “The Question of Relations”; (8) sent Nick my new version of chapter 8; (9) David Wright tells me he has submitted a review of my The Vicarage Iconoclast to Qeios; (9) Bill Sulis’ review of that paper has been received by Qeios, so that I now should hopefully have satisfied the requirements for its publication there as a peer-approved Version of Record; (9) sent Nick Griffin a draft of the new Preface for our book; (15) took part (virtually) in a round-table discussion on translating Leibniz at Sodalitas, the Italian Leibniz society, into which I was formally inaugurated; (16) Frida Trotter wrote with the welcome news that my Elysian Dialogues on the Infinite is currently under peer review with Birkhäuser; (21) sent a 10 page set of comments to Matthew McMillan on his and David Jekel’s translation of Leibniz’s Specimen Geometriæ luciferæ; and (22) corrected the proofs of my “Le rejet par Leibniz de l’existence des infinitesimaux en 1676” for the Leibniz à Paris collection, ed. Andrea Costa, David Rabouin and Paul Rateau.

November: (1-13) worked on revising Russell on Leibniz, and sent new versions of chapters 2, 4, and 6 to Nick for his inspection; (14-15) attended the Québec-Ontario Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, where I presented “Transcreation and Contiguity” again, with insightful commentary by Michael Massussi; (17-18) presented “Misreading Leibniz’s Space as an Intensive Magnitude: Russell and Deleuze” to the conference on Intensive Magnitude at the Université de Paris; (19) also in Paris, took part in a Round Table on my and David Rabouin’s Leibniz on the Foundations of the Differential Calculus, with commentaries by Federico Raffo Quintana, Oscar Esquisabel, and Valérie Debuiche; (24) accepted referee’s report request from Philosophical Review; (26): heard from Luciana O’Flaherty that OUP have accepted to publish our Russell on Leibniz, and are sending the contract; (27): submitted final version of “Tracing the Origins of Leibniz’s Principle of the Equipollence of Hypotheses” to François Duchesneau for his edited issue of the Revue internationale de la philosophie; heard from Qeios that I only need one more positive review for my Whitehead paper to be published there.  

October: (10) five handsome hard copies of my and Osvaldo’s Leibniz: Writings on the Metaphysics of the Infinite arrived on my doorstep; (11-20) corresponded with Adrian Heathcote about my Vicarage Iconoclast paper; (17-19) took part in the Leibniz Society of North America annual conference, where I presented my paper “Transcreation and Contiguity”, with a learned commentary by John Whipple; (21) participated in the Red de Jóvenes investigadores Leibniz, where I commented on great papers by Omar Hraoui and Filippo Costantini; (22-26) corresponded with Bull Sulis about my critique of Whitehead; (23) submitted a revised version of my The Vicarage Iconoclast: Whitehead on Leibniz, Relativity and the Quantum to Qeios. It is available at https://doi.org/10.32388/932RTK.3 (24) presented “Transcreation and Contiguity” again to Sodalitas Leibnitiana, the Italian Leibniz society, with insightful commentaries by Omar Hraoui and Niccolò Fioravanti; (26-27):finished editing the referencing for the Elysian Dialogues and submitted it to Frida Trotter for possible publication with Birkhäuser.

September: (8): sent John Whipple a copy of my paper for the LSNA, since he is commenting on it; (8-30): on vacation in Italy and Greece; (18) received a new review through Qeios of The Vicarage Iconoclast from Timothy Eastman; (20) a revised version of the paper is now up at doi: https://doi.org/10.32388/932RTK.2.

August: (2) accepted an invitation from Sodalitas Leibnitiana (Roma) to speak at their workshop in October; completed a referee’s report for an article for a special issue of Historia Mathematica; (3) sent in a (final?) couple of corrections for the final version of the proofs of Leibniz: Writings on the Metaphysics of the Infinite; sent Lucy Sheaf revisions of her translation; (4) received all three reader’s reports from April Peake at OUP for Russell on Leibniz, all of them positive, but with criticisms that need addressing; (5) having completed a draft of an introduction for Elysian Dialogues on the Infinite, sent it to colleagues for feedback; (15) returned corrected final proofs of Monads and Points” to the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie; (18) invited by Federico Raffa Quintana to act as commentator on October 21 in the “Red de Jóvenes investigadores Leibniz” (“Leibniz Young Researchers Network”) he has helped establish in Buenos Aires; (26) “Monads and Points, Contiguity and Transcreation” published in the Archivi für Geschichte der Philosophie, doi: 10.1515/agph-2024-0179.

July: (1) learnt that my submission for the LSNA conference in October has been accepted; sent Kathrin Gardhouse detailed comments on the complete draft of her thesis; (3) sent in proofs and indexes of Leibniz: Writings on the Metaphysics of the Infinite to Vasuki in Chennai for review; (6) heard from Centaurus that they are publishing Jeff’s and Filippo’s article after my intervention as 3rd referee (solicited despite my declared conflict of interest); (15) agreed to help Lucy Sheaf of King’s College with her translation of Leibniz’s Letter to Arnauld of late 1671; sent back corrected proofs of my paper “Monads and Points” to the Archiv; (19) gave Jeffrey Elawani detailed feedback on his PhD thesis chapter on the Dynamica; (28) approved the final version of Kathrin’s PhD thesis for submission; my paper “The Vicarage Iconoclast: Whitehead on Leibniz, Relativity and the Quantum” is published by Qeios on their server, ready for comments: doi:https://doi.org/10.32388/932RTK.

June: (1): sent in an abstract for the LSNA conference in October, “Transcreation and Contiguity; Understanding Leibniz on Continuous Creation”; (2) Osvaldo’s and my “Deriving the laws of motion from abstract principles” came out in the Leibniz Review; wrote an abstract for a planned paper, “Events in Quantum Theory and Relativity”; (4) Osvaldo and I agreed with Jamie Mortimer’s suggestion to rename our book Leibniz: Writings on the Metaphysics of the Infinite; (1-15) continued writing my dialogue on Whitehead, The Vicarage Iconoclast; (12) accepted an invitation from Christian Leduc to speak at the Quebec-Ontario Workshop on Early Modern Philosophy, November 14-15; (13):accepted an invitation from Elias Vavouras to contribute an article for Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Democritus, “Democritus Through the Eyes of Newton and Leibniz”;  

May: (1-8) Got valuable suggestions from Dan Garber and Nick Griffin about how to rewrite Elysian Dialogues so as to make it more attractive to publishers; (1-15): Osvaldo and I continued working on the proofs for our Leibniz on the Metaphysics of the Infinite (LMI); (9) finished a complete draft of “Tracing the Origins” and sent it to François Duchesneau; (21) we finished the proofs of LMI;(26) my “Monads and Points, Contiguity and Transcreation: On the Development of Leibniz’s Metaphysics of the Continuum” has now been accepted for publication in Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie; (27) heard from April Peake that readers’ reports for Nick’s and my book with OUP are still weeks away, a year after submission: scandalous! (31) attended some sessions of the CSHPM and CSHPS here in Toronto.

April: (1): Received copies of the new Routledge edition of Bertrand Russell’s The Philosophy of Leibniz, for which I have written the foreword; (5) began work on The Vicarage Iconoclast, a new paper on Whitehead’s metaphysics; (13) “Monads and Points” accepted for pubkication by Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, subject to minor revisions; (14) Filippo Costantini’s and my “Monads, situation, and infinite explanation” is published in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy; (18-30) received the proofs for Leibniz on the Metaphysics of the Infinite, and began correcting them with Osvaldo; (25) resubmitted “Monads and Points” as ““Monads and Points, Contiguity and Transcreation: On the Development of Leibniz’s Metaphysics of the Continuum,” to the Archiv; (26) submitted the final version of “Le rejet par Leibniz de l’existence des infinitesimaux en 1676” for the Leibniz à Paris collection, ed. Andrea Costa, David Rabouin and Paul Rateau.

March: (7) sent Elysian Dialogues to Stephen Latta at Broadview, and he will get the board to consider it in early April; (8) sent an abstract,“Tracing the Origins of Leibniz’s Principle of the Equipollence of Hypotheses”, to François, who in return sent me his review of Leibniz: Journal Articles in Natural Philosophy; (10) received an e-copy of David’s and my Leibniz on the Foundations of the Differential Calculus from Birkhäuser (and 5 copies in the mail on March 31), and also confirmation of the acceptance of Filippo’s and my article in BJHP. (21-31): wrote much of “Tracing the Origins”.

February: (2) David Rabouin and I finished editing the proofs of our book, Leibniz on the Foundations of the Differential Calculus (LFDC), and submitted it to Springer; (2-21) rewrote Elysian Dialogues as a consequence of the reordering of material in Days 2 and 3, as helpfully suggested by Nick Griffin; (21): finally got a reply from April Peake at OUP about publishing it, to whom I sent the latest version, but on (24) she wrote to say it was not the right fit for OUP; (25) the same from Hilary Gaskin at CUP; so I sent it to Adam Johnson at Routledge, who copied my request to Tony Bruce, the acq. editor—no reply; (23) invited by François Duchesneau to submit a paper on Leibniz’s dynamics & metaphysics for the Revue internationale de philosophie.

January: (4) received refs’ reports for a “revise and resubmit” of my paper with Filippo, and he is sending our reply to the suggestions to BJHP; (1-15) in constant dialogue with Tim Beck, the copysetter for OUP for Osvaldo Oattaviani’s and my book, Leibniz on the Metaphysics of the Infinite; there were particular problems with the setting for Leibniz’s exchange with Wagner, but we resolved them; (11) finally heard back from April Peake, the acquisitions editor at OUP, about my book with Nick Griffin, Russell on Leibniz, saying that we can expect word “later this term” (!!)—it has already been 7 months!; (22): I offered my new book, Elysian Dialogues on the Infinite, to April, with no reply; (23) composed abstracts of the chapters of David’s and my book, LFDC; (1-29): made progress on chapters 2-5 of Time: What’s the Problem?.