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Three case studies in current Leibniz scholarship
Mikhail G. Katz, Karl Kuhlemann, David Sherry +1
We examine some recent scholarship on Leibniz's philosophy of the infinitesimal calculus. We indicate difficulties that arise in articles by Bassler, Knobloch, and Arthur, due to a…
Two-track depictions of Leibniz's fictions
Mikhail G. Katz, Karl Kuhlemann, David Sherry +2
Leibniz described imaginary roots, negatives, and infinitesimals as useful fictions. But did he view such 'impossible' numbers as mathematical entities? Alice and Bob take on the l…
Procedures of Leibnizian infinitesimal calculus: An account in three modern frameworks
Jacques Bair, Piotr Blaszczyk, Robert Ely +2
Recent Leibniz scholarship has sought to gauge which foundational framework provides the most successful account of the procedures of the Leibnizian calculus (LC). While many schol…