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Leibniz: Perception, Apperception, and Thought, Robert McRae. University of Toronto Press, Toronto and Buffalo. 1976. x + 148 pages.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

Nicholas Jolley
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego

Abstract

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Type
Critical Notices/Études critiques
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1980

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Notes

1 Here I am particularly thinking of the translation of the New Essays by Langley, A.C. (3rd. ed., Lasalle, 1949)Google Scholar. Fortunately a new translation is being prepared by Jonathan Bennett and Peter Remnant.

2 ‘Monadology’, in Frankfurt, H.G. (ed.), Leibniz: A Collection of Critical Essays (New York, 1972), pp. 99135.Google Scholar

3 I have emphasised this aspect of Leibniz's reading of Locke in a couple of recent articles: Leibniz on Locke and Socinianism’, Journal of the History of Ideas, XXXIX (1978), 233–50Google Scholar; Perception and Immateriality in the Nouveaux Essais’, Journal of the History of Philosophy, XVI (1978), 181–94.Google Scholar

4 See for instance remarks by Castaneda, H.-N., ‘Leibniz's Meditation on April 15, 1676 About Existence, Dreams and Space,’ Studia Leibnitiana, Supplementary Vol. XVIII, 2 (Wiesbaden, 1978), pp. 91129.Google Scholar

5 Leibniz to Des Bosses, 15 March 1715, Gerhardt, C.I. (ed.), Die Philosophischen Schriften von G.W. Leibniz, 7 vols., (Berlin, 1875–90), II, p. 492.Google Scholar

6 Furth, op. cit., p. 116.

7 Quoted in Castaneda, op. cit., p. 100.

8 Furth, op. cit., p. 103.

9 Ibid., pp. 117–9.

10 Leibniz's Philosophy of Logic and Language, (London, 1972), p. 26.