Gastón Robert

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at Adolfo Ibáñez University

Ovaj članak ima za cilj ponuditi temeljit i nov prikaz sastavnica Leibnizove teorije prestabilirane harmonije, shvaćene kao objašnjenje jedinstva među svim supstancijama. Zalaže se za formulaciju teorije u pogledu šest komplementarnih komponenti, razvijajući tumačenje o njima zajedno s kritičkim raspravama o drugim tumačenjima koja se nalaze u lite...

Discussions of Leibniz’s view of the relation between God and nature in 1675–1676 has split commentators into two competing camps. According to some scholars, Leibniz was a pantheistic substance monist in these years. However, other scholars think that he was neither a substance monist nor a pantheist. This paper advocates a middle ground between t...

A long-standing problem in Aristotelian scholarship concerns the question of how to reconcile Aristotle’s twofold description of metaphysics as ontology (the universal science of being qua being) and theology (the science of the changeless and separate substance). An important attempt to answer this question (advanced first by G. Patzig) consists i...

This article argues that Kant’s argument from incongruent counterparts in his essay, Directions in Space (1768) yields not the conclusion that space is an objective reality, but rather that it is an absolute and dynamical framework that grounds spatial properties, a view which is neutral with respect to the objective/subjective nature of space. It...

This article discusses Leibniz’s claim that every substance is endowed with the property of perception in connection with Platonism, rationalism and the problem of substance monism. It is argued that Leibniz’s ascription of perception to every substance relies on his Platonic conception of finite things as imitations of God, in whom there is ‘infin...

This article aims to make further progress in revising the standard account of Wolff’s philosophy as a popularisation and systematisation of Leibniz’s doctrines. It focuses on the topic of the communication among substances and the metaphysics of simples and activity underlying it. It is argued that Wolff does not accept the pre-established harmony...

El presente trabajo aborda el problema del estatuto ontológico de las relaciones intermonádicas en la filosofía de Leibniz. Según argumentaré, dada (1) la concepción leibniziana de la sustancia como ser completo y (2) la caracterización que hace Leibniz de Dios como agente creador libre, las relaciones intersubstanciales no pueden ser entendidas co...

Las filosofías de Wolff y Baumgarten han sido tradicionalmente evaluadas como una mera sistematización de las doctrinas de Leibniz, carente de toda originalidad. Se revisa esta opinión, concentrándose en el problema específico de la interacción de las sustancias naturales. Se muestra que ellos no siguen a Leibniz con el mismo grado de cercanía en a...

The philosophies of Wolff and Baumgarten have been traditionally evaluated as mere systematizations of the doctrines of Leibniz, and, therefore, as lacking all originality. The paper revises that opinion, focusing on the specific problem of the interaction of natural substances, in order to show that they do not follow Leibniz as closely with respe...

El presente trabajo analiza y discute el principio de Sucesión, formulado por Kant en la Nova Dilucidatio de 1755. El principio, como se verá, demuestra la imposibilidad de dar cuenta satisfactoria de la posibilidad del cambio en un universo de sustancias causalmente aisladas y, en este sentido, constituye una refutación de la doctrina leibniziana...

This paper deals with the problem of the ontological status of inter-monadic relations in Leibniz's philosophy. I shall argue that, given (i) Leibniz's notion of substance as a complete being and (2) his characterization of Cod as a free creator agent, intermonadic relations cannot be understood as mere entities of reason grounded ab extra on the c...