Mates, Benson - The Philosophy of Leibniz: Metaphysics and Language

In recent years there has been a remarkable rebirth of interest in the philosophy of Leibniz. This is due to several mutually reinforcing factors. Logicians and philosophers of logic have found that his views on some of the matters that concern them most, such as identity, truth, and necessity, were well thought out, systematic, and, when considered together with the reasons behind them, deeply intuitive. Philosophers of language have become aware that his writings are a mine of sophisticated and valuable ideas in that area. Metaphysicians, especially those of nominalistic bent, have been interested to see how this great mind attempted to cope with the obvious problems involved in nominalism and nominalistic reductions. And epistemologists and philosophers of science are finding that he discusses, in a very modern way, a wide variety of issues that are central to their interests, too.