The New Synthese Historical Library Adrian Nita Editor Leibniz’s Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms Between Continuity and Transformation The New Synthese Historical Library Texts and Studies in the History of Philosophy Volume 74 Editor-in-Chief Simo Knuuttila , Helsinki University Associate Editors Daniel Elliot Garber, Princeton University Richard Sorabji, University of London Miira Tuominen, University of Jyväskylä Editorial Consultants Jan A. Aertsen, Thomas-Institut, Universität zu Köln Roger Ariew, University of South Florida, Tampa E. Jennifer Ashworth, University of Waterloo (Emeritus) Gail Fine, Cornell University R.J. Hankinson, University of Texas Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University David Konstan, Brown University Richard H. Kraut, University of Illinois, Chicago Alain de Libera, Université de Genève Eleonore Stump, St. Louis University Allen Wood, Stanford University More information about this series at h ttp://www.springer.com/series/6608 Adrian Nita Editor Leibniz’s Metaphysics and Adoption of Substantial Forms Between Continuity and Transformation Editor Adrian Nita Facultatea de Stiinte Sociale Universitatea din Craiova Craiova , Romania ISSN 1879-8578 ISSN 2352-2585 (electronic) The New Synthese Historical Library ISBN 978-94-017-9955-3 ISBN 978-94-017-9956-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-9956-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015943396 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 T his work is subject to copyright. 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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 Scientifi c Research, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-0739. v Contents 1 Introduction. Leibniz’s Metaphysics and the Adoption of Substantial Forms ................................................ 1 Adrian Nita 2 The Individual in Leibniz’s Philosophy, 1663–1686 ............................. 11 Lucio Mare and Roger Ariew 3 Substance, Unity and Identity in Early Leibniz’s Work ...................... 27 Adrian Nita 4 Hylomorphism (Even) Without Matter? Transtemporal Sameness and the Rehabilitation of Substantial Form in Leibniz’s Theory of Substance ....................... 43 Stefano Di Bella 5 Essential Differences. Or, an Exercise in Symptomatic History of Philosophy ................................................. 59 Enrico Pasini 6 Affects and Activity in Leibniz’s D e affectibus ..................................... 73 Markku Roinila 7 Presumption and Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Action .............................. 89 Andreas Blank 8 Corporeal Substances as Monadic Composites in Leibniz’s Later Philosophy ................................................................ 107 Paul Lodge 9 The Souls of Seeds ................................................................................... 125 Pauline Phemister vii viii Contents 10 The Relativity of Motion as a Motivation for Leibnizian Substantial Forms ................................................................................... 143 Richard T. W. Arthur 11 Monads on My Mind .............................................................................. 161 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 Mansfi eld 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 ix