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Volume 8                                                              December 1998

ARTICLES
Marcelo Dascal, Language in the Mind's House

(Discusses Leibniz's theory of language in relation to Descartes, Hobbes,
and McRae's interpretation; takes a detailed look at the difference between
human and animal sensory and intellectual capacities-including feeling,
memory, distinct and symbolic knowledge, and the communicative and
psychotechnical functions of language.)

Richard Arthur, Infinite Aggregates and Phenomenal Wholes: Leibniz's
Theory of Substance as a Solution to the Continuum Problem

(Concentrates on some papers Leibniz wrote in Paris in February-April of
1676; argues that bodies are infinite aggregates because they are
infinitely divided, and phenomena because they are not unities; maintains
that Leibniz upheld commitment to corporeal substances throughout the
mature period.)

Paul Lodge, The Failure of Leibniz's Correspondence with De Volder

(Presents an overview of the De Volder correspondence based around the main
concern that precipitated the interchange -- De Volder's desire for a
naturalistic account of substantial activity. Shows how disagreements over
methodology and the nature of extended reality finally put an end
to De Volder's hopes of obtaining such an account from Leibniz.)

LEIBNIZ TEXTS
Brandon Look, On an Unpublished Manuscript of Leibniz (LH IV.I.1aBl.7):
New Light on the Vinculum Substantiale and the Correspondence with
Des Bosses (see pullout chart below)

R.S.Woolhouse, John Toland and 'Remarques Critiques sur le Systême de
Monsr. Leibnitz De l'Harmonie préétablie'

BOOK REVIEWS
Stuart Brown: Laurence B. McCullough's Leibniz on Individuals and Individuation

Laurence B. McCullough: Response to Brown

Marleen Rozemond:  R.S. Woolhouse & Richard Francks (eds.), Leibniz's 'New
System' and Associated Contemporary Texts

J. A. Cover: Ezio Vailati's Leibniz & Clarke: A Study of Their Correspondence

DISCUSSION
Gregory Brown: Who's Afraid of Infinite Numbers? Leibniz and the World Soul

Konrad Moll:  Science and Ethics in Leibniz: A reply to Beeley

News from Germany
Recent Works on Leibniz
Pullout chart: Scanned image of an Unpublished Manuscript of Leibniz (LH IV.I.1a Bl.7)



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