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Wolff’s Principal Works
For a complete listing of Wolff’s works, see Theis & Aichele
(2018: 20–27). Editions of all of Wolff’s works have been
reprinted in the series:
- Christian Wolff: Gesammelte Werke, 1962–, edited by
Jean École, Hans Werner Arndt, Charles Anthony Corr, Joseph
Ehrenfried Hofmann, M. Thoman, Hildesheim: Olms. (Scholar)
In the case of the German Logic and German
Metaphysics, both of which saw numerous editions and significant
changes throughout Wolff’s lifetime, references in this entry
are to the later, reprinted editions.
In the above entry, all translations are by the authors unless
otherwise indicated.
Wolff’s German Texts
- 1710, Der Anfangs-Gründe aller mathematischen
Wissenschafften (Elements of All the Mathematical Sciences),
Halle.
- [GL] 1713, Vernünftige Gedanken von den Kräften des
menschlichen Verstandes und ihrem richtigen Gebrauch in der Erkenntnis
der Wahrheit (Rational Thoughts on the Powers of the Human
Understanding and its Proper Use in the Cognition of Truth), Halle.
14th edition [1754] reprinted with an introduction by Hans
Werner Arndt in Christian Wolff, Gesammelte Werke, 1.Abt.,
Deutsche Schriften, Bd.1. Hildesheim: Olms, 1965. (Scholar)
- [GM] 1719/20, Vernünftige Gedanken von Gott, der Welt und
der Seele des Menschen, auch allen Dingen überhaupt
(Rational Thoughts on God, the World and the Soul of Man, and on All
Things in General), Halle. 7th edition [1751] reprinted with
introduction by Charles A. Corr in Christian Wolff, Gesammelte
Werke, 1.Abt., Deutsche Schriften, Bd.3. Hildesheim: Olms,
1983. (Scholar)
- [GE] 1720, Vernünftige Gedanken von der Menschen Thun und
Lassen zur Beförderung ihrer Glückseligkeit (Rational
Thoughts on Human Action and Omission with a View to Promoting his
Happiness), Halle. (Scholar)
- 1721, Vernünftige Gedanken von dem gesellschaftlichen
Leben der Menschen, und insonderheit dem gemeinen Wesen (Rational
Thoughts on the Social Life of the Human Being, and in particular on
the Commonwealth), Halle.
- 1723, Vernünftige Gedanken von den Wirkungen der
Natur (Rational Thoughts on the Operations of Nature, Halle.
- 1724, Vernünftige Gedanken von den Absichten der
natürlichen Dingen (Rational Thoughts on the Purposes of
Natural Things), Frankfurt and Leipzig.
- 1725, Vernünftige Gedanken von dem Gebrauche der Theile
des menschlichen Leibes, der Thiere und Pflanzen (Rational
Thoughts on the Employment of the Parts of the Human Body, Animals,
and Plants), Frankfurt.
Wolff’s Latin Texts
- 1703a, Philosophia practica universalis, methodo mathematica
conscripta (On Universal Practical Philosophy, composed according
to the Mathematical Method).
- 1703b, Disquisitio philosophica de loquela, Leipzig.
- 1709, Aërometriæ elementa, Leipzig.
- 1713–15, Elementa matheseos universae (Elements of
All the Mathematical Sciences), 2 vols. Halle.
- 1716, Mathematisches Lexicon (Mathematical Lexicon),
Leipzig.
- 1718, Ratio prælectionum Wolfianarum, Halle.
- [LL] 1728, Philosophia rationalis sive Logica, methodo
scientifica pertractata, et ad usum scientiarum. atque vitae aptata.
Praemittitur discursus praeliminaris de philosophia in genere
(Rational Philosophy, or Logic), Frankfurt. Includes
- [DP] Discursus praeliminaris de philosophia in genere
(Preliminary Discourse on Philosophy in General) (Scholar)
- [Ont.] 1730, Philosophia prima sive ontologia methodo
scientifica pertractata qua omnis cognitionis humanae principia
continentur (First Philosophy, or Ontology), Frankfurt. (Scholar)
- [Cosm.] 1731, Cosmologia generalis methodo scientifica
pertractata, qua ad solidam imprimis Dei atque naturae cognitionem via
sternitur (General Cosmology), Frankfurt and Leipzig. (Scholar)
- [EP] 1732, Psychologia empirica methodo scientifica
pertractata, qua ea quae de anima humana indubia experientiae fide
constant, continentur (Empirical Psychology), Frankfurt and
Leipzig. (Scholar)
- [RP] 1734, Psychologia rationalis methodo scientifica
pertractata, qua ea, quae de anima humana indubia experientiae fide
innotescunt (Rational Psychology), Frankfurt. (Scholar)
- [NT] 1736–7, Theologia naturalis scientifica
pertractata (Natural Theology), 2 vols., Frankfurt. (Scholar)
- 1738–9, Philosophia practica universalis methodo
scientifica pertractata, 2 vols. Frankfurt.
- 1740–1748, Jus naturae methodo scientifica
pertractatum, 8 vols., Frankfurt & Leipzig, and Halle.
- 1749, Jus gentium methodo scientifica pertractatum (The
Law of Nations Treated According to a Scientific Method), Halle.
- 1750–3, Philosophia moralis sive ethica, 5 vols.,
Halle.
- 1963, Briefwechsel zwischen Leibniz und Christian Wolff,
C. I. Gerhardt (ed.). Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung.
Primary Literature in English Translation
- 1770, Logic, or Rational Thoughts on the Powers of the Human
Understanding with their Use and Application in the Knowledge and
Search of Truth, London: Printed for L. Hawes, W. Clarke, and R.
Collins. Translation of Vernünftige Gedanken von den
Kräften des menschlichen Verstandes und ihrem richtigen Gebrauch
in der Erkenntnis der Wahrheit (1713/GL).
- 1963, Preliminary Discourse on Philosophy in General,
translated by Richard J. Blackwell, Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill
Company, Inc. Translation of Discursus praeliminaris de
philosophia in genere (1729/DP).
- 1992, Moral Enlightenment: Leibniz and Wolff on
China, translated by Julia Ching and Willard Gurdon Oxtoby,
Nettetal: Steyler Verlag. Contains a translation of
Wolff's Oratio de Sinarum philosophia practica.
- 2003, Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant, translated
by J. B. Schneewind, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Contains a
translation of excerpts from Wolff’s Vernünftige
Gedanken von der Menschen Thun und Lassen zur Beförderung ihrer
Glückseligkeit (1720b). (Scholar)
- 2009, Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: Background Source
Materials, edited and translated by Eric Watkins, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. Contains a translation of excerpts from
Wolff’s Vernünftige Gedanken von Gott, der Welt und der
Seele des Menschen, auch allen Dingen überhaupt
(1720a/GM). (Scholar)
- 2017, The Law of Nations Treated according to a Scientific
Method, translated by Joseph H. Drake, revised and edited by
Thomas Ahnert, Carmel, IN: Liberty Fund. Translation of Jus
gentium methodo scientifica pertractatum (1749).
- [EMGP] 2019, Early Modern German Philosophy, edited and
translated by Corey W. Dyck, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Contains
a translation of selections from Wolff’s Vernünftige
Gedanken von Gott, der Welt und der Seele des Menschen, auch allen
Dingen überhaupt (1729a/GM) and of Wolff’s
“Refutation of Spinoza” from the Theologia
naturalis (1736–7/NT). (Scholar)
- 2022, First Philosophy, or Ontology. Treated according to
the Scientific Method, containing the Principles of all Human
Cognition. Part I §§1–78. Translated,
annotated, with an introduction by Klaus Ottmann. Thomason: Spring
Publications.
- 2024, Kant's Critique of Practical Reason: Background
Source Materials, translated by Michael H. Walschots, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. Contains a partial translation
of Vernünftige Gedanken von der Menschen Thun und Lassen
zur Beförderung ihrer Glückseligkeit.
Other Primary Sources
- Baumeister, Friedrich Christian, 1747, Elementa Philosophiae Recentioris, Leipzig: Gleditschii. (Scholar)
- Crusius, Christian August, 1743, Dissertatio philosophica de
usu et limitibus principii rationis determinantis, vulgo
sufficientis¸; translated in EMGP. (Scholar)
- Kant, Immanuel, 1900–, Kants gesammelte Schriften,
edited by Königlichen Preußischen (later Deutschen)
Akademie der Wissenschaften (ed.), Berlin: Georg Reimer (later Walter
De Gruyter). (Scholar)
- –––, 1998, Critique of Pure Reason, P. Guyer and A. Wood (eds. and trans.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Selected Secondary Literature
- Ahnert, Thomas, 2004, “Newtonianism in Early Enlightenment Germany, c. 1720 to 1750: Metaphysics and the Critique of Dogmatic Philosophy”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 35(3): 471–91. doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2004.06.003 (Scholar)
- Anderson, R. Lanier, 2005, “The Wolffian Paradigm and Its Discontent: Kant’s Containment Definition of Analyticity in Historical Context”, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 87(1): 22–74. doi:10.1515/agph.2005.87.1.22 (Scholar)
- –––, 2015, The Poverty of Conceptual Truth:
Kant’s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction and the Limits of
Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198724575.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Arndt, Hans Werner, 1983, “Rationalismus und Empirismus in
der Erkenntnislehre Christian Wolffs”, in Schneiders 1983:
31–47. (Scholar)
- Bacin, Stefano, 2017, “Rationalism and Perfectionism”, in The Cambridge History of Moral Philosophy, Sacha Golob and Jens Timmermann (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press;, 379–393. doi:10.1017/9781139519267.030 (Scholar)
- Beck, Lewis White, 1969, Early German Philosophy: Kant and His Predecessors, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Beiser, Frederick C., 1987, The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 2009, Diotima’s Children: German
Aesthetic Rationalism from Leibniz to Lessing, Oxford: Oxford
University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573011.001.0001 (Scholar)
- Beutel, Albrecht, 2001, “Causa Wolffiana. Die Vertreibung
Christian Wolffs aus Preußen 1723 als Kulminationspunkt des
thelogisch-politischen Konflikts zwischen halleschem Pietismus und
Aufklärungsphilosophie”, in Wissenschaftliche Theologie
und Kirchenleitung. Beiträge zur Geschichte einer
spannungsreichen Beziehung, Ulrich Köpf (ed.),
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 159–202. (Scholar)
- Bianco, Bruno, 1989, “Freiheit gegen Fatalismus. Zu Joachim
Langes Kritik an Wolff”, in Zentren der Aufklärung.
Halle: Aufklärung und Pietismus, vol. I, Norbert Hinske
(ed.), Berlin: DeGruyter, 111–155. (Scholar)
- Bissinger, Anton, 1970, Die Struktur der Gotteserkenntnis. Studien zur Philosophie Christian Wolffs, Bonn: Bouvier. (Scholar)
- Blackall, Eric A., 1978, The Emergence of German as a Literary
Language: 1700–1775, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press. (Scholar)
- Blackwell, Richard J., 1961, “Christian Wolff’s Doctrine of the Soul”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 22(3): 339–354. doi:10.2307/2708129 (Scholar)
- –––, 1961, “The Structure of Wolffian Philosophy”:, The Modern Schoolman, 38(3): 203–218. doi:10.5840/schoolman196138325 (Scholar)
- Brink, David O., 2019, “Normative Perfectionism and the Kantian Tradition”, Philosophers' Imprint 19(45) [Brink 2019 available online] (Scholar)
- Buchenau, Stefanie, 2013, The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment: The Art of Invention and the Invention of Art, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139225281 (Scholar)
- Burns, John V., 1966, Dynamism in the Cosmology of Christian Wolff: A Study in Pre-Critical Rationalism, New York: Exposition Press. (Scholar)
- Calinger, Ronald S., 1969, “The Newtonian-Wolffian Controversy: 1740–1759”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 30(3): 319–330. doi:10.2307/2708560 (Scholar)
- Campo, Mariano, 1939, Cristiano Wolff e il razionalismo
precritico, Milan. (Scholar)
- Carboncini, Sonia, 1991, Transzendental Wahrheit und Traum: Christian Wolffs Antwort auf die Herausforderung durch den Cartesianischen Zweifel, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Fromann-Holzboog. (Scholar)
- Cataldi Madonna, Luigi, 2001, Christian Wolff und das System
des klassischen Rationalismus, Hildesheim: Olms. (Scholar)
- –––, 2011, “The Eighteenth-Century
Rehabilitation of Sensitive Knowledge and the Birth of Aesthetics:
Wolff, Baumgarten and Mendelssohn”, in Moses
Mendelssohn’s Metaphysics and Aesthetics, Reinier Munk
(ed.) (Studies in German Idealism 13), Dordrecht: Springer
Netherlands, 279–297. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2451-8_15 (Scholar)
- –––, 2007, “Erfahrung und Intuition in der
Philosophie von Christian Wolff”, in Stolzenberg and Rudolph
2007: vol. 2, 173–194. (Scholar)
- Chance, Brian A., 2018, “Wolff’s Empirical Psychology
and the Structure of the Transcendental Logic”, in Dyck and
Wunderlich 2018: 17–34. doi:10.1017/9781316493229.002">10.1017/9781316493229.002 (Scholar)
- Corr, Charles Anthony, 1966, Order and Method in Christian
Wolff’s Philosophy, Phd Dissertation, Saint Louis, MO:
Saint Louis University. (Scholar)
- –––, 1970, “Certitude and Utility in the Philosophy of Christian Wolff”:, Southwestern Journal of Philosophy, 1(1): 133–142. doi:10.5840/swjphil197011/216 (Scholar)
- –––, 1972, “Christian Wolff’s Treatment of Scientific Discovery”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 10(3): 323–334. doi:10.1353/hph.2008.1585 (Scholar)
- –––, 1973, “The Existence of God, Natural Theology and Christian Wolff”, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 4(2): 105–118. doi:10.1007/bf00138698 (Scholar)
- –––, 1975, “Christian Wolff and Leibniz”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 36(2): 241–262. doi:10.2307/2708926 (Scholar)
- –––, 1983, “Cartesian Themes in
Wolff’s German Metaphysics”, in Schneiders 1983:
113–120. (Scholar)
- Dunlop, Katherine Laura, 2013, “Mathematical Method and Newtonian Science in the Philosophy of Christian Wolff”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 44(3): 457–469. doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2012.10.008 (Scholar)
- –––, 2019, “Definitions and Empirical
Justification in Christian Wolff’s Theory of Science”, in
From Leibniz to Kant (Logical Analysis and History of
Philosophy 21), Katherine Laura Dunlop and Samuel Levey
(eds.), Paderborn: mentis Verlag, 149–176. (Scholar)
- Dyck, Corey W., 2011, “A Wolff in Kant’s Clothing: Christian Wolff’s Influence on Kant’s Accounts of Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and Psychology: A Wolff in Kant’s Clothing”, Philosophy Compass, 6(1): 44–53. doi:10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00370.x (Scholar)
- –––, 2014, Kant and Rational Psychology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688296.001.0001 (Scholar)
- –––, 2016, “The Priority of Judging: Kant
on Wolff’s General Logic”, Estudos Kantianos,
4(2): 99–118.
[Dyck 2016 available online] (Scholar)
- –––, 2021a, “Before and Beyond Leibniz: Tschirnhaus and Wolff on Experience and Method”, in The Experiential Turn in 18th Century German Philosophy, Karin DeBoer and Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (eds), London: Routledge, 17–36. (Scholar)
- –––, 2021b, “Wolff and the Dogmas of
Classical Rationalism”, in The Force of an Idea. New
Essays on Christian Wolff's Psychology, Saulo de Freitas
Araujo, Thiago Constancio Ribeiro Pereira, and Thomas Sturm (eds.).
Cham: Springer, 69–88. (Scholar)
- ––– (ed.), 2021, Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, forthcoming[a], “Power, Harmony, and Freedom: Debating Causation in 18th Century Germany”, in Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Corey W. Dyck, Frederick C. Beiser, and Brandon C. Look (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, forthcoming[b], Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Dyck, Corey W. and Falk Wunderlich (eds.), 2018, Kant and His German Contemporaries, Volume 1: Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Science and Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316493229 (Scholar)
- École, Jean, 1979, “En quel sens peut-on dire que Wolff est rationaliste?”, Studia Leibnitiana, 11(1): 45–61. (Scholar)
- –––, 1990, La métaphysique de Christian Wolff, Hildesheim: Olms. (Scholar)
- –––, 2001, “Des rapports de la
métaphysique de Christian Wolff avec celle des
Scolastiques”, in Autour de la philosophie Wolffienne,
Jean École (ed.), Hildesheim: Olms, 55–69. (Scholar)
- Eggers, Daniel, 2019, “Moral Motivation in 18th century Moral Rationalism”, European Journal of Philosophy 27(3): 552–574. doi:10.1111/ejop.12441 (Scholar)
- Engfer, Hans-Jürgen, 1992, “Von der leibnizischen
Monadologie zur empirischen Psychologie Wolffs”, in Nuovi
studi sul pensiero di Christian Wolff, Sonia Carboncini and Luigi
Cataldi Madonna (eds.). Hildesheim: Olms, 193–215. (Scholar)
- Erdmann, Johann Eduard, 1866 [1890], Grundriss der Geschichte
der Philosophie, volume 2. Translated, from the third edition of
1877, as The History of Philosophy, volume 2, Williston S.
Hough (trans.), New York: Macmillan & Co. (Scholar)
- Euler, Werner, 2003,
“Bewußtsein—Seele—Geist: Untersuchungen zur
Transformation des Cartesischen ‘Cogito’ in der
Psychologie Christian Wolffs”, in Rudolph and Goubet 2003:
11–50. doi:10.1515/9783110932317.11">10.1515/9783110932317.11 (Scholar)
- Fabian, Gerd, 1925, Beitrag zur Geschichte des Leib-Seele-Problems: Lehre von der prästabilierten Harmonie und psychophysischen Parallelismus in der Leibniz-Wolffschen Schule, Langensalza: Hermann Beyer und Söhne. (Scholar)
- Falkenstein, Lorne, 1991, “Kant, Mendelssohn, Lambert, and the Subjectivity of Time”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 29(2): 227–251. doi:10.1353/hph.1991.0046 (Scholar)
- Favaretti Camposampiero, Matteo, 2009, Conoscenza simbolica. Pensiero e linguaggio in Christian Wolff e nella prima età moderna, Hildesheim: Olms. (Scholar)
- –––, 2011, “Der psychotheologische
Weg,” in Aufklärung 23: 71–96. (Scholar)
- –––, 2018, “Philosophy of Language”,
in Theis and Aichele 2018: 115–135.
doi:10.1007/978-3-658-14737-2_6">10.1007/978-3-658-14737-2_6 (Scholar)
- –––, 2019, “Mereology and Mathematics: Christian Wolff’s Foundational Programme”, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, early online: 11 March 2019. doi:10.1080/09608788.2019.1568228 (Scholar)
- –––, 2021, “Infinite Regress: Wolff’s Cosmology and the Background of Kant’s Antinomies,” Kant-Studien 112(2): 239–64. doi:10.1515/kant-2020-0040 (Scholar)
- –––, 2024, “Objective Morality: Wolff
and the Impious Hypothesis,” in Sonja Schierbaum, Michael
Walschots, and John Walsh (eds.), Christian Wolff's German
Ethics: New Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
129–152. (Scholar)
- Fischer, Klaus P., 1975, “John Locke in the German Enlightenment: An Interpretation”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 36(3): 431–446. doi:10.2307/2708655 (Scholar)
- Frangsmyr, Tore, 1975, “Christian Wolff’s Mathematical Method and Its Impact on the Eighteenth Century”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 36(4): 653–668. doi:10.2307/2708994 (Scholar)
- Gava, Gabriele, 2018, “Kant, Wolff, and the Method of Philosophy”, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume VIII, Daniel Garber and Donald Rutherford (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 271–304. (Scholar)
- –––, 2023, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and the Method of Metaphysics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009172127.013 (Scholar)
- Gilson, Etienne, 1952, Being and Some Philosophers, second edition, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. (Scholar)
- Goldenbaum, Ursula, 2024, “Wolff's Powerful Concept of
Perfection and its Roots”, in Sonja Schierbaum, Michael
Walschots, and John Walsh (eds.), Christian Wolff's German
Ethics: New Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
67–86. (Scholar)
- Gomez Tutor, Juan Ignacio, 2004, Die wissenschaftliche Methode bei Christian Wolff, Hildesheim: Olms. (Scholar)
- Gracia, Jorge J. E., 1993, “Christian Wolff on Individuation”, The History of Philosophy Quarterly, 10: 147–164. (Scholar)
- Hamid, Nabeel, forthcoming, “Wolff on Substance, Power, and Force”, Journal of the History of Philosophy. (Scholar)
- Heßbrüggen-Walter, Stefan, 2004, Die Seele und ihre Vermögen: Kants Metaphysik des Mentalen in der Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Paderborn: Mentis. (Scholar)
- Hettche, Matt, 2008, “On the Cusp of Europe’s
Enlightenment: Christian Wolff and the Argument for Academic
Freedom”, Florida Philosophical Review: The Journal of the
Florida Philosophical Association, 8(1): 91–107.
[Hettche 2008 available online (download full issue)] (Scholar)
- Hüning, Dieter, 2004, “Christian Wolffs
„allgemeine Regel der menschlichen Handlungen“: Über
die Bedeutung des Vollkommenheitsprinzips in Wolffs
Moralphilosophie”, Jahrbuch für Recht und Ethik /
Annual Review of Law and Ethics
12, 91–113. (Scholar)
- Kanamori, Shigenari, 1997, “Christian Wolff’s Speech
on Confucianism: Confucius Compared with Wolff”, European
Journal of Law and Economics, 4(2–3): 299–304.
doi:10.1023/a:1008635611833 (Scholar)
- Kawamura, Katsuoshi, 1996, Spontaneität und Willkür: Der Freiheitsbegriff in Kants Antinomienlehre und seine historischen Wurzeln, Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog. (Scholar)
- Kertscher, Hans-Joachim, 2018, “Er brachte Licht und Ordnung in die Welt”. Christian Wolff—eine Biographie, Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag. (Scholar)
- Kreimendahl, Lothar, 2007, “Empiristische Elemente im Denken
Wolffs”, in Stolzenberg and Rudolph 2007: vol. 1,
95–112. (Scholar)
- Kuehn, Manfred, 1987, Scottish Common Sense in Germany,
1768–1800: A Contribution to the History of Critical
Philosophy, Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press. (Scholar)
- –––, 1997, “The Wolffian Background of
Kant’s Transcendental Deduction”, in Logic and the
Workings of the Mind: The Logic of Ideas and Faculty Psychology in
Early Modern Philosophy, Patricia A. Easton and Lorne Falkenstein
(eds), Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Publishing Company,
229–250. (Scholar)
- Kitcher, Patricia, 2003, “What is a Maxim?”, Philosophical Topics 31(1/2): 215–243. (Scholar)
- Lach, Donald F., 1953, “The Sinophilism of Christian Wolff (1679–1754)”, Journal of the History of Ideas, 14(4): 561–574. doi:10.2307/2707702 (Scholar)
- Leduc, Christian, 2018, “Sources of Wolff’s
Philosophy: Scholastics/Leibniz”, in Theis and Aichele 2018:
35–53. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-14737-2_2 (Scholar)
- –––, 2021, “The Role of Experience in
Wolff's General Cosmology”, in The Experiential Turn in 18th
Century German Philosophy, Karin DeBoer and Tinca
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- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1989a, Philosophical Essays,
Roger Ariew and Daniel Garber (trans.), Indianapolis: Hackett Pub.
Co. (Scholar)
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 1989b, Philosophical Papers and
Letters, Leroy E. Loemker (ed.), second edition, Dordrecht:
Springer Netherlands. doi:10.1007/978-94-010-1426-7 (Scholar)
- Lenders, Winfried, 1971, “The Analytic Logic of G. W.
Leibniz and Chr. Wolff: A Problem in Kant Research”,
Synthese, 23(1): 147–153. doi:10.1007/bf00414150 (Scholar)
- Lodge, Paul, 2018, “Leibniz's Justification of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (Mainly) in the Correspondence with Clarke”, History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 21(1), 69–91. (Scholar)
- Look, Brandon C., 2011, “Grounding the Principle of
Sufficient Reason: Leibnizian Rationalism and the Humean
Challenge”, in The Rationalists: Between Tradition and
Innovation, Carlos Fraenkel, Dario Perinetti, and Justin E. H.
Smith (eds.), Dordrecht: Spinger, 201–19. (Scholar)
- Louden, Robert, 2002, “‘What Does Heaven Say?’
Christian Wolff and Western Interpretations of Confucian
Ethics”, in Confucius and the Analects: New Essays,
Bryan W. Van Norden (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press,
73–93. (Scholar)
- Morrison, James C, 1993, “Christian Wolff’s Criticisms of Spinoza”, Journal of the History of Philosophy, 31(3): 405–420. doi:10.1353/hph.1993.0057 (Scholar)
- Neumann, Hanns-Peter, 2014, “Der preußische
Kronprinz Friedrich und die französische Übersetzung der
Deutschen Metaphysik Christian Wolffs im Jahr 1736. Die
Identifizierung der Krakauer Handschrift Ms Gall. Fol. 140 in der
Biblioteka Jagiellonska und der Berliner Handschrift P. 38 in der
Bibliothek des Schlosses Charlottenburg,” in Forschungen zur
Brandenburgischen und Preußischen Geschichte 24:
35–68. (Scholar)
- Paccioni, Jean-Paul, 2006, Cet esprit de profondeur: Christian Wolff, l'ontologie et la métaphysique, Paris: Vrin. (Scholar)
- Paulsen, Friedrich, 1902 [1906], Die deutschen
Universitäten und das Universitätsstudium, Berlin: A.
Asher. Translated as The German Universities and University
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