Why was Leibniz so deeply interested in signs and language? What role does this interest play in his philosophical system? In the essays here collected, Marcello Dascal attempts to tackle these questions from different angles. They bring to light aspects of Leibniz’s work on these and related issues which have been so far neglected. As a rule they take as their starting point Leibniz's early writings (some unpublished, some only available in Latin) on characters and cognition, on definition, on truth, on memory, on grammar, on the specific problems of religious discourse, and so on. An effort has been made to relate the views expressed in these writings both to Leibniz’ more mature views, and to the conceptions prevailing in his time, as well as in preceding and following periods. The common thread running through all the essays is to what extent language and signs, in their most varied forms, are related to cognitive processes, according to Leibniz and his contemporaries.
2025. Reflections on the principle of sufficient reason. The Southern Journal of Philosophy 63:S1
Tropper, Sarah
2024. Toleration of What Is above Reason: The Impact of Leibniz’s View on Religious Belief on Experiential Matters. Religions 15:8 ► pp. 1004 ff.
Menegalle, Giovanni
2023. Two Regimes of Logocentrism. Angelaki 28:6 ► pp. 50 ff.
Święczkowska, Halina
2023. Some Remarks on Leibniz’s Idea of Thinking as Computation. Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric 68:1 ► pp. 35 ff.
Narváez, Mario Andrés
2022. La verdadera ciencia: método geométrico y filosofía en la Ética de Spinoza. Anales del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 39:1 ► pp. 55 ff.
Lyssy, Ansgar
2021. Leibniz’s Philosophy. In Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, ► pp. 1 ff.
Lyssy, Ansgar
2022. Leibniz’s Philosophy. In Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, ► pp. 1075 ff.
MILLÁN, JOAN BERTRAN-SAN
2021. LINGUA CHARACTERICAANDCALCULUS RATIOCINATOR: THE LEIBNIZIAN BACKGROUND OF THE FREGE-SCHRÖDER POLEMIC. The Review of Symbolic Logic 14:2 ► pp. 411 ff.
Ottaviani, Osvaldo
2021. Leibniz lettore di John Toland. Le Annotatiunculae subitaneae a Christianity Not Mysterious. RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA :2 ► pp. 345 ff.
Harrop, Stephen
2020. ON SOME LEIBNIZIAN ARGUMENTS FOR THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON. History of Philosophy Quarterly 37:2 ► pp. 143 ff.
2020. A Semiotic Perspective of Metaphor Translation. Chinese Semiotic Studies 16:2 ► pp. 243 ff.
Kanbir, Sinan, M. A. Clements & Nerida F. Ellerton
2018. Postscript: Framing Research Aimed at Improving School Algebra. In Using Design Research and History to Tackle a Fundamental Problem with School Algebra [History of Mathematics Education, ], ► pp. 211 ff.
Carvallo, Sarah
2017. The Empirical Turn of Medicine in England 1660-1690. Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences 67:178 ► pp. 75 ff.
Sariel, Aviram
2016. Analytic Controversies. In Paradoxes of Conflicts [Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, 12], ► pp. 141 ff.
Andrés-Gallego, José
2015. Are Humanism and Mixed Methods Related? Leibniz’s Universal (Chinese) Dream. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 9:2 ► pp. 118 ff.
Capozzi, Mirella
2015. Gli inizi di una metodologia della scoperta. L'emergere di un aspetto naturalistico della logica. PARADIGMI :2 ► pp. 45 ff.
Velarde Lombraña, Julián
2013. Los requisitos. Cultura Vol. 32 ► pp. 29 ff.
HARPAZ, GUY
2011. The role of dialogue in reflecting and constituting International Relations: the causes and consequences of a deficient European-Israeli dialogue. Review of International Studies 37:4 ► pp. 1857 ff.
Wierzbicka, A.
2011. Common language of all people: The innate language of thought. Problems of Information Transmission 47:4 ► pp. 378 ff.
Betti, Arianna
2010. Leśniewski’s characteristica universalis. Synthese 174:2 ► pp. 295 ff.
Nef, Frédéric
2008. Declarative vs. Procedural Rules for Religious Controversy: Leibniz’s Rational Approach to~Heresy. In Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?, ► pp. 383 ff.
Picon, Marine
2008. What Is the Foundation of Knowledge? Leibniz and the Amphibology of Intuition. In Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?, ► pp. 213 ff.
Scarafile, Giovanni
2008. “Paroles Entièrement Destituées de Sens”. Pathic Reason in the Théodicée. In Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?, ► pp. 423 ff.
Sáenz-Ludlow, Adalira
2007. Signs and the process of interpretation: sign as an object and as a process. Studies in Philosophy and Education 26:3 ► pp. 205 ff.
Frogel, S.
2004. Philosophical Argumentation: Logic and Rhetoric. Argumentation 18:2 ► pp. 171 ff.
2003. Bounded Semiotics: From Utopian to Evolutionary Models of Communication. In Dynamics and Change in Organizations, ► pp. 15 ff.
Salmerón, Fernando
2003. The Reception of Analytical Philosophy in Latin America. In Philosophy of Latin America, ► pp. 61 ff.
Bouchilloux, Hélène, Leiser Madanes, Maria Rosa Antognazza, Peter Alexander, Margaret Atherton, M. M. Goldsmith, Christopher Adair‐Toteff, Patrick Riley, Peter Loptson, Peter Foley, Stella Gonzalez Arnal & David Bakhurst
1998. Book reviews. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 6:2 ► pp. 281 ff.
Goldenbaum, Ursula
1998. Leibniz as a Lutheran. In Leibniz, Mysticism and Religion, ► pp. 169 ff.
Goldenbaum, Ursula
1999. Transubstantiation, Physics and Philosophy at the Time of the Catholic Demonstrations. In The Young Leibniz and his Philosophy (1646–76), ► pp. 79 ff.
Armour, Leslie
1993. Escartes and Eustachius a Sancto Paulo: Unravelling the mind‐body problem. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 1:2 ► pp. 3 ff.
Mounin, Georges
1992. Semantics and Neurology: Neuronal Man and Linguistics. Diogenes 40:157 ► pp. 41 ff.
Dascal, Marcelo
1989. Artificial intelligence and philosophy: The knowledge of representation. Systems Research 6:1 ► pp. 39 ff.
Dascal, Marcelo
1992. Why does language matter to artificial intelligence?. Minds and Machines 2:2 ► pp. 145 ff.
2006. Digital Culture: Pragmatic and Philosophical Challenges. Diogenes 53:3 ► pp. 23 ff.
Dascal, Marcelo
2008. Leibniz’s Two-Pronged Dialectic. In Leibniz: What Kind of Rationalist?, ► pp. 37 ff.
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2025. The Rise of Western Politics following the Collapse of the Monistic Medieval Cosmology. In Can Democracy Recover?, ► pp. 13 ff.
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2025. The Rise of the Western Nature/Culture Dualistic Cosmology from a Comparative Perspective. In Can Democracy Recover?, ► pp. 21 ff.
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