Garber’s Interpretations of Leibniz on Corporeal Substance in the ‘Middle Years’

Abstract

In 1985 Daniel Garber published his highly intluential paper "Leibniz and the Foundations of Physics: The Middle Years".In two recent articles, Garber returns to these issues with a new position -that we should perhaps conclude that Leibniz did not have a view concerning the ultimate ontology of substance during his middle years.I discuss the viability of this position and consider some more general methodological issues that arise from this discussion.