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Volume 74 The New Synthese Historical Library Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy Series Editor Simo Knuuttila More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6608 Editor Adrian Nita Leibniz’s Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial FormsBetween Continuity and Transformation Editor Adrian Nita Facultatea de Stiinte Sociale, Universitatea din Craiova, Craiova, Romania ISSN 1879-8578 e-ISSN 2352-2585 ISBN 978-94-017-9955-3 e-ISBN 978-94-017-9956-0 DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9956-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2015943396 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Dordrecht is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Acknowledgment This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3- 0739. Abbreviations A Leibniz. (1923–). Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe , Reihe I–VII. Herausgegeben von der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. AG Leibniz. (1989). Philosophical Essays . Trans. R. Ariew & D. Garber. Indianapolis: Hackett. Alexander Leibniz. (1956). The Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence. Trans. H. T. Alexander. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Arthur Leibniz. (2001). The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Writings on the Continuum Problem. 1672–1686 . Ed. and Trans. R. T. W. Arthur. New Haven: Yale University Press. CSM Descartes. (1984–1985). The Philosophical Writings of Descartes , I–II. Trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Dugald Murdoch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DMR Malebranche. (1997). Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion . Ed. Nicholas Jolley. Trans. David Scott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. FC Leibniz. (1857). Nouvelles lettres et opuscules inédits . Intr. Louis Alexandre Foucher de Careil. Hildesheim and New York: Olms. Reprint, 1971. Fichant Leibniz. (1994). La réforme de la dynamique: De corporum concursu (1678) et autres textes inédits, ed. and trans. Michel Fichant. Paris: Vrin. GP Leibniz. (1875–1890). Die Philosophischen Schriften . Ed. C. I. Gerhardt. Berlin: Weidman. Reprint, Hildesheim: Olms, 1965. GM Leibniz. (1849–1863). Mathematische Schriften . Ed. CI Gerhardt. Reprint, Hildesheim: Olms, 1971–2004. Grua. Leibniz. (1948). Textes inédits . Ed. Gaston Grua. 2 vols. Paris: PUF. H Leibniz. (1985). Theodicy. Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil . Ed. with an intr. Austin Farrer. Trans. E. M. Huggard. La Salle: Open Court (1951). Molesworth Hobbes. (1839). The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (I & III), Ed. William Molesworth. London: Bohn. L Leibniz. (1969). Philosophical papers and letters . A selection trans. and ed., with and intr. Leroy E. Loemker. 2nd ed. Dordrecht: Reidel. LO Malebranche. (1997). The Search After Truth . Ed. & Trans. Thomas M. Lennon and Paul J. Olscamp. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lodge Leibniz. (2013). G. W. Leibniz, The Leibniz–De Volder Correspondence . Ed. and Trans. Paul Lodge. New Haven: Yale University Press. LR Leibniz. (2007). The Leibniz–Des Bosses Correspondence . Ed. & Trans. Brandon C. Look and Donald Rutherford. New Haven: Yale University Press. Mason Leibniz. (1967). The Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence . Ed. & Trans. H. T. Mason. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Parkinson Leibniz. (1992). De summa rerum. Metaphysical papers , 1675– 1676, Trans. with an intr. G. H. R. Parkinson. New Haven/London: Yale University Press. RB Leibniz. (1996). New Essays on Human Understanding . Eds. & Trans. P. Remnant and J. Bennett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. R-L Malebranche. (1979–1992). Oeuvres, 2 vol. Ed. by Geneviève Rodis- Lewis in collaboration with Germain Malbreil. Paris: Gallimard. Sleigh Leibniz. (2005). Confessio philosophi. Papers Concerning the Problem of Evil , 1671–1678. Trans., Ed. and with an Intr. Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. New Haven/London: Yale University Press. Strickland Leibniz. (2011). Leibniz and the Two Sophies: The Philosophical Correspondence. Trans. L. Strickland. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies and Iter Inc. WF Leibniz. (1997). Leibniz’s “New System” and Associated Contemporary Texts . Ed. and Trans. R. S. Woolhouse and Richard Francks. Oxford: Clarendon. Contents 1 Introduction. Leibniz’s Metaphysics and the Adoption of Substantial Forms Adrian Nita 2 The Individual in Leibniz’s Philosophy, 1663–1686 Lucio Mare and Roger Ariew 3 Substance, Unity and Identity in Early Leibniz’s Work Adrian Nita 4 Hylomorphism (Even) Without Matter? Transtemporal Sameness and the Rehabilitation of Substantial Form in Leibniz’s Theory of Substance Stefano Di Bella 5 Essential Differences. Or, an Exercise in Symptomatic History of Philosophy Enrico Pasini 6 Affects and Activity in Leibniz’s De affectibus Markku Roinila 7 Presumption and Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Action Andreas Blank 8 Corporeal Substances as Monadic Composites in Leibniz’s Later Philosophy Paul Lodge 9 The Souls of Seeds Pauline Phemister 10 The Relativity of Motion as a Motivation for Leibnizian Substantial Forms Richard T. W. Arthur 11 Monads on My Mind 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 Mansfield 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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This anthology is about the signal change in Leibniz's metaphysics with his explicit adoption of substantial forms in 1678-79. This change can either be seen as a moment of discontinuity with his metaphysics of maturity or as a moment of continuity, such as a passage to the metaphysics from his last
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