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Primary Sources for Leibniz with Abbreviations
- 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. - The Labyrinth of the Continuum: Writings on the Continuum Problem, 1672–1686. Translated and edited by Richard T. W. Arthur. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. - The Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence. Edited and translated by H. T. Mason. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1967. - The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence. Edited and translated by Brandon C. Look and Donald Rutherford. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. - The Leibniz-De Volder Correspondence: With Selections from the Correspondence between Leibniz and Johann Bernoulli. Edited and translated by Paul Lodge. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. - Lettres de Leibniz à Arnauld d'après un manuscrit inédit. Edited by Geneviève Rodis-Lewis. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1952. - Logical Papers. Translated and edited by G. H. R. Parkinson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966. [GM] Mathematische Schriften. 7 vols. Edited by C. I. Gerhardt. Halle, 1849–63. Reprint, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1963. [RB] New Essays on Human Understanding. Translated by Peter Remnant and Jonathan Bennett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. - Nouvelles lettres et opuscules inédits de Leibniz. Edited by A. Foucher de Careil. Paris, 1857. Reprint, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1971. - Opera omnia, nunc primum collecta… 6 vols. Edited by Ludovici Dutens. Genevae, 1768. [C] Opuscules et fragments inédits de Leibniz. Extraits des manuscrits… Edited by Louis Couturat. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1903. Reprint, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1961. [AG] Philosophical Essays. Translated and edited by Roger Ariew and Dan Garber. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1989. [L] Philosophical Papers and Letters. Edited and translated by Leroy E. Loemker. 2d ed., Dordrect: D. Reidel, 1969. - Philosophical Texts. Edited and translated by R.S. Woolhouse and Richard Francks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. [G] Die philosophischen Schriften. 7 vols. Edited by C. I. Gerhardt. Berlin, 1875–90. Reprint, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1965. - Political Writings. Edited by Patrick Riley. Second edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. [A] Sämtliche Schriften und Briefe. Edited by the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Darmstadt, 1923 ff., Leipzig, 1938 ff., Berlin, 1950 ff. Cited by Series (Reihe) and Volume (Band). (To date the Akademie edition, Series VI, has the philosophical writings to 1690, plus the New Essays, as well as, in Series II, Leibniz's philosophical correspondence to 1685.) [SR] De Summa Rerum: Metaphysical Paper, 1675–1676. Translated and edited by G.H.R. Parkinson. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992. - Textes inédits d'après les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque provinciale de Hanovre. 2 vols. Edited by Gaston Grua. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1948. [H] Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom on Man and the Origin of Evil. Translated by E. M. Huggard. La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1985.
Other Primary Sources
[CSM] The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. Edited by John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff, Dugald Murdoch. 2 Volumes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. [AT] Oeuvres de Descartes. Edited by Charles Adam and Paul Tannery. 12 Volumes. Reprint, Paris: J. Vrin, 1996.
Secondary Sources
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- Broad, C. D., 1975. Leibniz: An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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- Ishiguro, Hidé, 1990. Leibniz's Philosophy of Logic and Language, 2nd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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- Jalabert, Jacques, 1947. La théorie leibnizienne de la substance, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. (Scholar)
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- Jolley, Nicholas, 1984. Leibniz and Locke: A Study of the “New Essays on Human Understanding,” Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
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- Kulstad, Mark A., 1980. “A Closer Look at Leibniz's Alleged Reduction of Relations,” Southern Journal of Philosophy, 18(4): 417–32. (Scholar)
- –––, 1991. Leibniz on Apperception, Consciousness and Reflection, Munich: Philosophia Verlag. (Scholar)
- –––, 1993. “Two Interpretations of the Pre-Established Harmony in the Philosophy of Leibniz,” Synthese, 96(3): 477–504. (Scholar)
- Lærke, Mogens, 2008. Leibniz et Spinoza: le genèse d'une opposition complexe, Paris: Honoré Champion. (Scholar)
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- Leduc, Christian, 2009. Substance, individu et connaissance chez Leibniz, Montreal: University of Montreal Press. (Scholar)
- Levey, Samuel, 1998. “Leibniz on Mathematics and the Actually Infinite Division of Matter,” Philosophical Review, 107(1): 49–96. (Scholar)
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