The Leibniz Review

Volume 15, December 2005

Paul Lodge
Pages 1-26

Garber’s Interpretations of Leibniz on Corporeal Substance in the ‘Middle Years’

In 1985 Daniel Garber published his highly intluential paper “Leibniz and the Foundations of Physics: The Middle Years”. In two recent articles, Garber returns to these issues with a new position - that we should perhaps conclude that Leibniz did not have a view concerning the ultimate ontology of substance during his middle years. I discuss the viability of this position and consider some more general methodological issues that arise from this discussion.