17th Century Philosophy
“Leibniz’s Principle of Equivalence and the Origins of his Dynamics”, Vorträge des XI. Internationalen Leibniz-Kongresses, 2023, ed. Wenchao Li, Charlotte Wahl, Sven Erdner, Bianca Carina Schwarze and Yue Dan, Band 1, 27-38. [offprint]
“Some remarks on historical methodology in response to Vincenzo De Risi”, pp. 141–145, in Leibniz Review, 32, 2022 (a response to De Risi’s review of my (2021).
“Leibniz and the Three Degrees of Infinity”, pp. 25–46, in Leibniz Review, 32, 2022; with a reply from Ohad Nachtomy.
“A Question of Fundamental Methodology: Reply to Mikhail Katz”, co-authored with Tom Archibald, Giovanni Ferraro, Jeremy Gray, Douglas Jesseph, Jesper Lützen, Marco Panza, David Rabouin, and Gert Schubring, pp. 360–363 in The Mathematical Intelligencer, 44, 4, Winter 2022.
“On the Significance of A. A. Robb’s Philosophy of Time, Especially in Relation to Russell’s”, pp. 251–273 in British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 31, 2, a special issue of BJHP guest-edited by Emily Thomas, (online April 2022).
“Leibniz’s metaphysics of change: vague states & physical continuity”, pp. 299-322 in Thinking and Calculating. Essays on Logic, its History and its Philosophical Applications, in Honour of Massimo Mugnai, ed. Francesco Ademollo, Fabrizio Amerini, and Vincenzo De Risi, 2022. [offprint]
“Leibniz’s Ad schedam Hamaxariam: Introduction, Text and Translation”, co-authored with Osvaldo Ottaviani, pp. 61-106, Leibniz Review, 31, 2021.[offprint]
“Leibniz as a Precursor to Chaitin’s Algorithmic Information Theory”, chapter 9 (153-176) in Information and the History of Philosophy, ed. Chris Meyns, London: Routledge, 2021. [offprint]
“Leibniz’s syncategorematic infinitesimals II: their existence, their use and their role in the justification of Differential Calculus” (co-authored with David Rabouin), Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 2020, 1-43. [offprint]
« États vagues, changements discontinus, et le principe de continuité chez Leibniz », pp. 44-57 in Leibniz et leibnizianismes, ed. Jan Makovský, Prague: Filosofický časopis (Hors-série), 2019. [offprint]
“Mario Bunge on causality: some key insights and their Leibnizian precedents”, chapter 11 (pp. 185-204) in Mario Bunge: A Centenary Festschrift, ed. Michael R. Matthews, Springer Verlag, 2019. [offprint]
“Leibniz in Cantor’s Paradise: A Dialogue on the Actual Infinite”, ch. 3, pp. 71-109 in Leibniz and the Structure of Sciences: Modern Perspectives on the History of Logic, Mathematics, Epistemology, ed. Vincenzo De Risi, Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019. [offprint]
“On the Non-Idealist Leibniz: A Reply to Sam Levey,” pp. 97–101 in Leibniz Review, 28, 2018. [offprint]
“The Hegelian Roots of Russell’s Critique of Leibniz”, pp. 9-42 in Leibniz Review, 28, 2018. [offprint]
“Leibniz’s Syncategorematic Actual Infinite”, pp. 155-179 in Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy, eds. Ohad Nachtomy and Reed Winegar, Springer Verlag, 2018. [offprint]
“Russell’s Leibniz Notebook”, co-edited with Nicholas Griffin, pp. 5-56 in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, 37, 1, 2017.
“Marginalia in Russell’s Copy of Gerhardt’s edition of Leibniz’s Philosophischen Schriften”, co-edited with Nicholas Griffin and Jolen Galaugher, pp. 57-142 in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, 37, 1, 2017.
“Moore’s Notes on Russell’s Leibniz Lectures”, co-edited with Nicholas Griffin, pp. 143-192 in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, 37, 1, 2017.
“Thought Experiments in Newton and Leibniz”, 111-127 in The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, ed. James Robert Brown, Yiftach Fehige, and Michael T. Stuart. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
“Leibniz, Organic Matter and Astrobiology”, pp. 87-107 in Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy and Science of G. W. Leibniz, ed. Lloyd Strickland, Erik Vynckier and Julia Weckend. Routledge, 2016. [offprint]
“Leibniz’s Causal Theory of Time Revisited”, Leibniz Review, 26, 2016, 151-178. [offprint]
“Thought Experiments in Newton and Leibniz”, pp. 111-127 in The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, ed. James Robert Brown, Yiftach Fehige, and Michael T. Stuart. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. [preprint]
Reply to Ohad Nachtomy’s review of my Leibniz (Polity Press, 2014), forthcoming in Leibniz Review, 24, 2014, (review pp. 123-130, reply pp. 131-133: [preprint]
Review of Klaas van Berkel, Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion: Mechanical Philosophy in the Making, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, for HOPOS Spring 2014 issue (vol. 4, number 1). [preprint (extended version)]
“Newton and Leibniz on the Relativity of Motion”, Oxford Handbook of Newton, ed. Chris Smeenk and Eric Schliesser, published online June? 2015. [preprint]
“Leibniz’s Mechanical Principles (c. 1676): Commentary and Translation”, Leibniz Review, 23, 2013, 101-116 [preprint (comm) preprint (trans)].
“Massimo Mugnai and the Study of Leibniz”, Leibniz Review, 23, 2013, 1-5. [preprint]
“The Labyrinth of the Continuum”, in Maria Rosa Antognazza (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Leibniz; published online at (www.oxfordhandbooks.com), Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2013. [preprint]
“The relativity of motion as a motivation for Leibnizian substantial forms”, for Leibniz’s metaphysics and adoption of substantial forms, ed. Adrian Niță, Springer Verlag, 2015 [preprint].
“Atoms”, for the Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, ed. Larry Nolan (Cambridge University Press, 2014). [preprint]
“Time”, for the Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, ed. Larry Nolan (Cambridge University Press, 2014). [preprint]
“Leibniz’s Theory of Space”, Foundations of Science, ed. Karin Verelst and Maarten Van Dyck, pp. 499-528, 2013. [preprint]
“Time Atomism and Ash’arite Origins for Cartesian Occasionalism, Revisited” forthcoming in Asia, Europe and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries, ed. Arun Bala, Palgrave McMillan, 2012. [preprint]
“Beeckman’s Discrete Moments and Descartes’ Disdain”, Intellectual History Review (Special Issue on Absolute Space and Time, ed. Ed Slowik and Geoffrey Gorham), Dec. 2011, 22, 1, pp. 69-90. [abstract] [preprint]
“Presupposition, Aggregation, and Leibniz’s Argument for a Plurality of Substances”, Leibniz Review, 21, 91-116, 2011. [preprint]
“Leibniz’s Actual Infinite in Relation to his Analysis of Matter”, in Leibniz on the interrelations between mathematics and philosophy, (Springer: Archimedes Series), ed. Norma Goethe, Philip Beeley and David Rabouin, 2012. [preprint]
“Actual Infinitesimals in Leibniz’s Early Thought”, in The Philosophy of the Young Leibniz, Studia Leibnitiana Sonderhefte 35, ed. Mark Kulstad, Mogens Laerke and David Snyder, 2009, pp. 11-28. [preprint of earlier draft] This is a truncated version of a longer paper originally submitted in 2005, “From Actuals to Fictions: Four Phases in Leibniz’s Early Thought on Infinitesimals”, [preprint], which includes a fourth section, “Infinitesimals as Fictions”, not included in the published paper; please do not cite or quote without permission.
“Beeckman, Descartes and the force of motion”, Journal for the History of Philosophy, 45, 1, January, 2007; 1-28. [preprint]
“Leibniz’s Body Realism: Two Interpretations” –with Peter Loptson, The Leibniz Review, 16, 1-42, December 2006. [preprint]
“The Enigma of Leibniz’s Atomism”, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume 1, 2003, 183-227. [abstract] [preprint]
“Animal Generation and Substance in Sennert and Leibniz”, in The Problem of Animal Generation in Modern Philosophy, ed. Justin Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. [preprint] [published chapter]
“Leibniz and the Zenonists: a reply to Paolo Rossi”, This is an English translation of my first Italian publication: “Lo zenonismo come fonte delle monadi di Leibniz: una risposta a Paolo Rossi”, a reply to Professor Rossi on the role of the Zenonists in the genesis of Leibniz’s thought, Rivista di storia della filosofia (n. 2, 2003, 335-340). Rossi gave a rejoinder in the same issue (341-349). [preprint]
“Leibniz’s Theory of Time”, pp. 263-313 in The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz, ed. Kathleen Okruhlik and James R. Brown, D. Reidel: Dordrecht, 1985. [preprint]May 13, 2018 at 4:56 AM
Copyright © 2023 Richard T. W. Arthur
“On the Non-Idealist Leibniz: A Reply to Sam Levey,” pp. 97–101 in Leibniz Review, 28, 2018. [offprint]
“The Hegelian Roots of Russell’s Critique of Leibniz”, pp. 9-42 in Leibniz Review, 28, 2018. [offprint]
“Leibniz’s Syncategorematic Actual Infinite”, pp. 155-179 in Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy, eds. Ohad Nachtomy and Reed Winegar, Springer Verlag, 2018. [offprint]
“Russell’s Leibniz Notebook”, co-edited with Nicholas Griffin, pp. 5-56 in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, 37, 1, 2017.
“Marginalia in Russell’s Copy of Gerhardt’s edition of Leibniz’s Philosophischen Schriften”, co-edited with Nicholas Griffin and Jolen Galaugher, pp. 57-142 in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, 37, 1, 2017.
“Moore’s Notes on Russell’s Leibniz Lectures”, co-edited with Nicholas Griffin, pp. 143-192 in Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, 37, 1, 2017.
“Thought Experiments in Newton and Leibniz”, 111-127 in The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, ed. James Robert Brown, Yiftach Fehige, and Michael T. Stuart. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
“Leibniz, Organic Matter and Astrobiology”, pp. 87-107 in Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy and Science of G. W. Leibniz, ed. Lloyd Strickland, Erik Vynckier and Julia Weckend. Routledge, 2016. [offprint]
“Leibniz’s Causal Theory of Time Revisited”, Leibniz Review, 26, 2016, 151-178. [offprint]
“Thought Experiments in Newton and Leibniz”, pp. 111-127 in The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments, ed. James Robert Brown, Yiftach Fehige, and Michael T. Stuart. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. [preprint]
Reply to Ohad Nachtomy’s review of my Leibniz (Polity Press, 2014), forthcoming in Leibniz Review, 24, 2014, (review pp. 123-130, reply pp. 131-133: [preprint]
Review of Klaas van Berkel, Isaac Beeckman on Matter and Motion: Mechanical Philosophy in the Making, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013, for HOPOS Spring 2014 issue (vol. 4, number 1). [preprint (extended version)]
“Newton and Leibniz on the Relativity of Motion”, Oxford Handbook of Newton, ed. Chris Smeenk and Eric Schliesser, published online June? 2015. [preprint]
“Leibniz’s Mechanical Principles (c. 1676): Commentary and Translation”, Leibniz Review, 23, 2013, 101-116 [preprint (comm) preprint (trans)].
“Massimo Mugnai and the Study of Leibniz”, Leibniz Review, 23, 2013, 1-5. [preprint]
“The Labyrinth of the Continuum”, in Maria Rosa Antognazza (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Leibniz; published online at (www.oxfordhandbooks.com), Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2013. [preprint]
“The relativity of motion as a motivation for Leibnizian substantial forms”, for Leibniz’s metaphysics and adoption of substantial forms, ed. Adrian Niță, Springer Verlag, 2015 [preprint].
“Atoms”, for the Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, ed. Larry Nolan (Cambridge University Press, 2014). [preprint]
“Time”, for the Cambridge Descartes Lexicon, ed. Larry Nolan (Cambridge University Press, 2014). [preprint]
“Leibniz’s Theory of Space”, Foundations of Science, ed. Karin Verelst and Maarten Van Dyck, pp. 499-528, 2013. [preprint]
“Time Atomism and Ash’arite Origins for Cartesian Occasionalism, Revisited” forthcoming in Asia, Europe and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries, ed. Arun Bala, Palgrave McMillan, 2012. [preprint]
“Beeckman’s Discrete Moments and Descartes’ Disdain”, Intellectual History Review (Special Issue on Absolute Space and Time, ed. Ed Slowik and Geoffrey Gorham), Dec. 2011, 22, 1, pp. 69-90. [abstract] [preprint]
“Presupposition, Aggregation, and Leibniz’s Argument for a Plurality of Substances”, Leibniz Review, 21, 91-116, 2011. [preprint]
“Leibniz’s Actual Infinite in Relation to his Analysis of Matter”, in Leibniz on the interrelations between mathematics and philosophy, (Springer: Archimedes Series), ed. Norma Goethe, Philip Beeley and David Rabouin, 2012. [preprint]
“Actual Infinitesimals in Leibniz’s Early Thought”, in The Philosophy of the Young Leibniz, Studia Leibnitiana Sonderhefte 35, ed. Mark Kulstad, Mogens Laerke and David Snyder, 2009, pp. 11-28. [preprint of earlier draft] This is a truncated version of a longer paper originally submitted in 2005, “From Actuals to Fictions: Four Phases in Leibniz’s Early Thought on Infinitesimals”, [preprint], which includes a fourth section, “Infinitesimals as Fictions”, not included in the published paper; please do not cite or quote without permission.
“Beeckman, Descartes and the force of motion”, Journal for the History of Philosophy, 45, 1, January, 2007; 1-28. [preprint]
“Leibniz’s Body Realism: Two Interpretations” –with Peter Loptson, The Leibniz Review, 16, 1-42, December 2006. [preprint]
“The Enigma of Leibniz’s Atomism”, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume 1, 2003, 183-227. [abstract] [preprint]
“Animal Generation and Substance in Sennert and Leibniz”, in The Problem of Animal Generation in Modern Philosophy, ed. Justin Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. [preprint] [published chapter]
“Leibniz and the Zenonists: a reply to Paolo Rossi”, This is an English translation of my first Italian publication: “Lo zenonismo come fonte delle monadi di Leibniz: una risposta a Paolo Rossi”, a reply to Professor Rossi on the role of the Zenonists in the genesis of Leibniz’s thought, Rivista di storia della filosofia (n. 2, 2003, 335-340). Rossi gave a rejoinder in the same issue (341-349). [preprint]
“Leibniz’s Theory of Time”, pp. 263-313 in The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz, ed. Kathleen Okruhlik and James R. Brown, D. Reidel: Dordrecht, 1985. [preprint]May 13, 2018 at 4:56 AM
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