Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz

Justin E. H. Smith and Ohad Nachtomy, Editors

(Under consideration at Springer)

Table of Contents

Justin E. H. Smith and Ohad Nachtomy
Introduction

1. Glenn Hartz (Ohio State University)
“Leibniz’s Animals: Where Mechanism Meets Metaphysics”

2. François Duchesneau (Université de Montréal)
“Leibnizian Hypotheses concerning the Functioning of Machines of Nature”

3. Pauline Phemister (University of Edinburgh)
The Dominating in the Machine”

4. Ohad Nachtomy (Bar-Ilan University)
“Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines; or, What it means to
'remain a machine to the least of its parts'”

5. Enrico Pasini (Università di Torino)
“Leibniz on the Organic and the Living”

6. Raphaële Andrault (ENS-LSH, Lyon)
“The Machine Anatomized: A Comparative Approach to Steno, Malpighi, and
Leibniz”

7. Andreas Blank (Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel)
“Sennert, Boyle, and Leibniz on Composite Substances and Subordinate Forms”

8. Michel Fichant (Université de Paris-IV, Sorbonne)
“Monadology 62-77: Outline of a Research Programme”

9. Antonio Nunziante (Università di Padova)
“Continuity or Discontinuity? Some Remarks on Leibniz's Concepts of
‘substantia vivens’ and ‘Organism’”

10. Jeanne Roland (Université de Paris-X, Nanterre)
“The Organism, or the Machine of Nature: Some Remarks on the Status of Organism in the Substantial Composition.”

11. Anne-Lise Rey (Université de Lille)
“Action, Perception, and Organisation”

12. Justin Smith (Concordia University)
“A Role for Physiology in the Development of Leibniz’s Mature Metaphysics?”