300 Years of Leibniz’s Monadology (Edinburgh, 12-13 May 2014)

Leibniz’s enigmatic Monadology, written in 1714, is rightfully recognised as one of the most important and interesting texts in the history of philosophy. It is Leibniz’s most succinct and systematic outline of his metaphysics of monads and it includes highly influential discussions pertaining to mereology, modality, theology, and the philosophy of mind. This conference will be dedicated to celebrating the 300-year anniversary of this crucial work by exploring its legacy and reception through an examination of several philosophers who have attempted to develop his system.

Provisional Programme

Monday, 12 May 2014

09:30 – 10:00 – Registration and Coffee
10:00 – 11:00 – Delphine Kolesnik-Antoine (ENS de Lyon):
“The use of the monadological argument in nineteenth-century French
spiritualism: Examples and issues”
11:05 – 12:35 – Jeremy Dunham (Edinburgh):
“Félix Ravaisson’s Theory of Substance”
12:35 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 – Pierfrancesco Basile (Bern):
“Learning from Leibniz: Whitehead and Russell on Mind, Matter and Monads”
15:05 – 16:00 – Emily Thomas (Groningen):
“British Idealist Monadologies and the Reality of Time: Oakeley Against
McTaggart et al”
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee
16:30 – 17:30 – Paul Lodge (Oxford):
“Heidegger on the Being of Leibniz’s Monads”
19:00 – Dinner (Spoon)

Tuesday, 13 May 2014

09:00 – 09:30 – Coffee
09:30 – 10:30 – Mogens Laerke (ENS de Lyon/Aberdeen):
“Monads and worlds in Deleuze’s Le Pli”
10:35 – 11:35 – Jo Edwards (UCL):
“Perception, Physics and Metaphysics 1714-2014”
11:35 – 12:00 – Coffee
12:00 – 13:00 – Richard Fincham (American University of Cairo):
“Reconciling Leibnizian Monadology and Kantian Criticism: The case of
Maimon and Schelling”

For further details and registration see:
http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/events/view/three-hundred-years-of-leibniz

Note: The workshop runs on the two days immediately before the Scottish
Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, which will
be held on the 14th and 15th of May and organized by Professor Mogens Laerke
and Dr Beth Lord. The Edinburgh conference will end at lunch time on the
13th to allow participants to travel to Aberdeen in time for this
conference. The annual British Society for the History of Philosophy
conference, this year dedicated to ‘Scottish Common Sense Philosophy’, will
also be held at Edinburgh on the 7th – 9th of May.


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
paolanicolas (January 24, 2014). 300 Years of Leibniz’s Monadology (Edinburgh, 12-13 May 2014). ESEMP’s notebooks. Retrieved December 9, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/oihl


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