On 11 Jun 2013, at 09:14, Roger Clough wrote:
Daniel Garber, Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad
Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad by Daniel Garber
Review by: Justin E. H. Smith
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of
Philosophy of Science , Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 153-157
Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the
International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
Article DOI: 10.1086/656672
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/656672
"In this later monadological view, Leibniz has certainly not
eliminated the complex world of corporeal
substances, nested in one another to infinity. This world is still
very much a part of Leibniz’s picture.
That's why I think Leibniz is still a weak materialist, that is an
Aristotelian metaphysician. It is that point which is unreasonable
with comp, and with Everett QM, which is based on comp.
Indeed, he often (though not always) continues to use the
terminology that he had used in his earlier writings,
calling its constituents composite substances, compound substances,
or even corporeal substances.
But in the monadological metaphysics there is something new, a
metaphysical sub-basement of simple
substances added to the earlier view of bugs in bugs, a kind of
absolute grounding for that world, a domain of
genuine metaphysical unities that don’t themselves contain any
further unities. "
Adding such substance will not help, unless you abandon
computationalism.
Bruno
The above is part of a review. The complete text of the book is
given at
http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/13/9780199693092.pdf
Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 6/11/2013
See my Leibniz site at
http://team.academia.edu/RogerClough
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