Primary Sources

Note that all quotes from untranslated sources listed below are translated by the author of this entry.

[A]

Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe, Darmstadt and Berlin: Berlin Academy, 1923–, (cited by series, volume, and page).

[AG]

Philosophical Essays, Roger Ariew and Daniel Garber (trans.), Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1989.

[CP]

Confessio Philosophi: Papers Concerning the Problem of Evil, 1671–1678. Translated and edited by Robert C. Sleigh, Jr. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005.

[FC]

Lettres et opuscules inedits, Louis Alexandre Foucher de Careil (ed.), Hildesheim, New York: George Olms, 1975.

[G]

Die philosophischen Schriften von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, C. I. Gerhardt (ed.), Berlin: Weidman, 1875–1890 (cited by volume and page).

[L]

Philosophical Papers and Letters, second edition, Leroy E. Loemker (trans.), Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel, 1969.

[LR]

The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence, Brandon C. Look and Donald Rutherford (trans.), New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007.

[LBr]

Briefwechsel, Hannover: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek/Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek.

[NE]

New Essays on Human Understanding (Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain), Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett (trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981 (the pagination of this work corresponds to that of the Academy edition A vi 6; thus only one reference is required).

[RA]

The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Writings on the Continuum Problem, 1672–1686, Richard T. W. Arthur (trans.), New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.

[SR]

De Summa Rerum: Metaphysical Paper, 1675–1676. Translated and edited by G.H.R. Parkinson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.

[T]

Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil (Essais de théodicée), E. M. Huggard (trans.), La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1985 (cited from G 4 by section number).

[WF]

Leibniz’s ‘New System’ and Associated Contemporary Texts, Roger S. Woolhouse and Richard Francks (trans), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. doi:10.1093/actrade/9780198248460.book.1

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