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2026:<\/strong><\/p>\n October: (1-3) composed and sent my comments to Anat Schechtman on her paper for the upcoming LSNA conference at the end of \u00a0the month, which I will be attending on line.<\/p>\n September: (1-2): secured permission from the Russell Peace Foundation and obtained the permission licence from Taylor and Francis for use of the numerous quotations from Russell’s works in Elysian Dialogues on the Infinite<\/em>, just before my deadline for submitting the corrected proofs to Birkh\u00e4user, which I did on Sept 2; (2-3): accepted an invitation to give a paper remotely at the NYC Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy at Fordham University in Manhattan on April 3-4, 2027.; I was also invited to participate in a session at the APA to honour Barry Allen, but could not attend due to a personal embargo on travel to the USA, and the APA policy not to allow remote participation; (13) submitted to OUP revised copy of Russell on Leibniz<\/em> (with permissions licence from Taylor and Francis and new translations of quotations used; also submitted my review of Klaas Van Berkel, Albert Clement, and Arjan Van Dixhoorn, Knowledge and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic. Isaac Beeckman in Context<\/em> (Routledge, 2022) for the upcoming Bulletin cart\u00e9sien; <\/em>(17) submitted a referee’s report for the Journal of Early Modern Studies<\/em>; (21): posted another blog, this one on the Illusive founding of time in the subject\u2019s experience, “Bergson, inertial frames, and Einstein\u2019s local time<\/a>“;<\/p>\n August:(1-13): completed a 30-page draft of “Deleuze’s Intensive Space”; (13-31) worked on getting permissions for the Russell quotations for both current books; (21-24) began a review of a book on Beeckman; (24-31): worked on revising the proofs of Elysian Dialogues<\/em>,<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n July: (1-3): wrestled with my project coordinator at Straive in Chennai and the annoying Springer requirements for submission of my manuscript for Elysian Dialogues on the Infinite<\/em> before satisfying all concerned; (1-8): finished my paper on Kathleen Okruhlik and submitted it early; (7-8) received an unsolicited appreciation of my work on time from Niko Angell Gargiulo of Basic Books, who advised me to hire a literary agent; (8-13): completed and submitted a clearance review of John Whipple’s edited volume on the Monadology<\/em>; (20\u201331): worked on a new paper, “Deleuze\u2019s Intensive Space: A Mac\u00e9doine of Misreadings”.<\/p>\n June: (1-23): worked on the Festschrift paper on Kathleen Okruhlik’s work, and submitted an abstract; (8-11): made progress in dialogue with Emma Johnson on the editing of drafts of my Wikipedia page; (10) second Zoom meeting with Cliff Landesman discussing his Calculus Abacus; heard from Jamie Mortimer at OUP that he is handing over the book production of Russell on Leibniz <\/em>to Megan Farquar; (14-27): prepared and submitted my manuscript for Elysian Dialogues on the Infinite<\/em> through the fussy and demanding Springer portal.\u00a0<\/p>\n May: (1) received from Davide Crippa his fine review of David Rabouin’s and my Leibniz on the Foundations of the Differential Calculus<\/em>; (2-3): finished revising Elysian Dialogues on the Infinite: Leibniz, Cantor, and Russell<\/em>\u00a0in the light of the Reader’s comments, and sent a full reply and revised manuscript to Birkh\u00e4user; (4) learned from the editor Frida Trotter that the latter has been accepted for publication in the Frontiers in the History of Science<\/em> series edited by Vincenzo De Risi; (4-7) was approached by Emma Johnson, as independent editor for Wikipedia, to create a page for me, which I accepted; (7) agreed to act as a Reader for John Whipple’s Leibniz’s Monadology: A Critical Guide<\/em> for Cambridge University Press; (13): submitted to OUP the final copy of my and Nicholas Griffin’s Russell on Leibniz: The Question of Relations<\/em>; (14) successful Zoom meeting with Cliff Landesman discussing his Calculus Abacus; (20): Jeffrey Elawani successfully defended his thesis, “Leibniz\u2019s Science of Estimation: A Measure for the Synthesis of Universal Mathematics, Dynamics, And Metaphysics”, held at McMaster University bilingually in English and French; co-supervised by myself and David Rabouin, with Professors Anne-Lise Rey (Paris\u2013Nanterres), Emily Carson (McGill), Arnaud Pelletier (Universit\u00e9 libre de Bruxelles), Vincenzo De Risi (Paris-Cit\u00e9), and Alex Klein (McMaster) on the examining committee, and Prof. Jean-Pierre Marquis as an invited member; (23) accepted an invitation from Alexandre Duval to take part in a workshop at McMaster, November 13-14, on spatial perception and cognition in historical and contemporary philosophical contexts; (18-24) was offered a contract for Elysian Dialogues on the Infinite: Leibniz, Cantor, and Russell<\/em>\u00a0by Birkh\u00e4user, which I accepted.<\/p>\n April: (3) submitted revised proofs for my “Sur la relation entre la m\u00e9taphysique de Leibniz et la conservation de la force<\/em>” for the Duchesneau Festschrift volume; (8-27): worked with Nick Griffin on completing the final version of our manuscript of Russell on Leibniz: the Question of Relations<\/em>, and compiling abstracts of all the chapters; (9) finished and submitted my review of David Rabouin’s Math\u00e9matiques et philosophie chez Leibniz <\/em>for Journal of the History of Philosophy; <\/em>(23) heard at long last From Frida Trotter, the acquisitions editor at Birkh\u00e4user, who sent me the Reader’s Report for my Elysian Dialogues on the Infinite<\/em>, which was very insightful, complimentary, and replete with excellent constructive suggestions; (24) at the request of Letitia Meynell, I agreed to write a paper for a volume she is editing along with Jamie Shaw and Jon Tsou, tentatively titled, From Natural Philosophy to Values in Science: Selected Works of Kathleen Okruhlik and Critical Commentary; <\/em>.<\/p>\n March: (1-29) heard from Cliff Landesmann, who wishes to enlist my help in his compiling of an edition of Leibniz’s Nova Methodus<\/em>, for educational purposes, and in connection with his devising of a “calculus abacus”; (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<\/em>; (10-31): Nick and I continued working on revising our manuscript and preparing abstracts and keywords for the chapters.<\/p>\n February: (6) refereed Bill Sulis’ “Process and Space” for Entropy;<\/em> (8-28) worked intermittently with Nick Griffin on corrections for our book, and he supplied the requested Chronology..<\/p>\n 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<\/em> tradition; (23) agreed to review David Rabouin’s Math\u00e9matiques et philosophie chez Leibniz<\/em> (Vrin, 2025) for the Journal of the History of Philosophy<\/em>; (26) The Vicarage Iconoclast<\/em> is finally published as a peer-reviewed article in\u00a0Qeios<\/em>; (27-30): revised my chapter 6, and sent Nick detailed comments on his chapter revisions for our Russell on Leibniz<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n 2025:<\/strong><\/p>\n December: (4) signed the contract with OUP for Nick’s and my book, Russell on Leibniz<\/em>, 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<\/em> to Qeios<\/em>; (9) Bill Sulis’ review of that paper has been received by Qeios<\/em>, 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<\/em>, 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 <\/em>is currently under peer review with Birkh\u00e4user; (21) sent a 10 page set of comments to Matthew McMillan on his and David Jekel’s translation of Leibniz’s Specimen Geometri\u00e6 lucifer\u00e6<\/em>; and (22) corrected the proofs of my “Le rejet par Leibniz de l’existence des infinitesimaux en 1676” for the Leibniz \u00e0 Paris<\/em> collection, ed. Andrea Costa, David Rabouin and Paul Rateau.<\/p>\n November: (1-13) worked on revising Russell on Leibniz<\/em>, and sent new versions of chapters 2, 4, and 6 to Nick for his inspection; (14-15) attended the Qu\u00e9bec-Ontario Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, where I presented “Transcreation and Contiguity” again, with insightful commentary by Michael Massussi; (17-18) presented \u201cMisreading Leibniz’s Space as an Intensive Magnitude: Russell and Deleuze\u201d to the conference on Intensive Magnitude at the Universit\u00e9 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<\/em>, with commentaries by Federico Raffo Quintana, Oscar Esquisabel, and Val\u00e9rie Debuiche; (24) accepted referee’s report request from Philosophical Review<\/em>; (26): heard from Luciana O’Flaherty that OUP have accepted to publish our Russell on Leibniz<\/em>, and are sending the contract; (27): submitted final version of \u201cTracing the Origins of Leibniz\u2019s Principle of the Equipollence of Hypotheses\u201d to Fran\u00e7ois Duchesneau for his edited issue of the Revue internationale de la philosophie<\/em>; heard from Qeios<\/em> that I only need one more positive review for my Whitehead paper to be published there. \u00a0<\/p>\n October: (10) five handsome hard copies of my and Osvaldo’s Leibniz: Writings on the Metaphysics of the Infinite<\/em> arrived on my doorstep; (11-20) corresponded with Adrian Heathcote about my Vicarage Iconoclast<\/em> 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 J\u00f3venes investigadores Leibniz<\/em>, 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<\/em> to Qeios<\/em>. It is available at <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.32388\/932RTK.3<\/a>\u00a0(24) presented “Transcreation and Contiguity” again to Sodalitas Leibnitiana<\/em>, the Italian Leibniz society, with insightful commentaries by Omar Hraoui and Niccol\u00f2 Fioravanti; (26-27):finished editing the referencing for the Elysian Dialogues<\/em> and submitted it to Frida Trotter for possible publication with Birkh\u00e4user.<\/p>\n 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<\/em> from Timothy Eastman; (20) a revised version of the paper is now up at doi: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.32388\/932RTK.2.<\/a><\/p>\n 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<\/em>; (3) sent in a (final?) couple of corrections for the final version of the proofs of Leibniz: Writings on the Metaphysics of the Infinite<\/em>; sent Lucy Sheaf revisions of her translation; (4) received all three reader’s reports from April Peake at OUP for Russell on Leibniz<\/em>, all of them positive, but with criticisms that need addressing; (5) having completed a draft of an introduction for Elysian Dialogues on the Infinite<\/em>, sent it to colleagues for feedback; (15) returned corrected final proofs of Monads and Points” to the Archiv f\u00fcr Geschichte der Philosophie<\/em>; (18) invited by Federico Raffa Quintana to act as commentator on October 21 in the \u201cRed de J\u00f3venes investigadores Leibniz\u201d (\u201cLeibniz Young Researchers Network\u201d) he has helped establish in Buenos Aires; (26) “Monads and Points, Contiguity and Transcreation” published in the Archivi f\u00fcr Geschichte der Philosophie<\/em>, doi: 10.1515\/agph-2024-0179<\/a>.<\/p>\n