Gaston Robert
Biographic Data
| ID | 6147953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaston Robert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaston |
| FAMILY NAME | Robert |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adolfo Ibáñez University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9110-5187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Leibniz against occasionalism and Newtonianism
Leibniz famously charged occasionalism with entailing perpetual miracles (Objection from Perpetual Miracles = OPM). But he also extended this criticism to Newton’s theory of universal gravitation. Traditionally, scholars have interpreted this twofold application of OPM as stemming from different concerns in each case: while Leibniz’s anti-occasionalist OPM relies on the metaphysical idea that created substances must be endowed with intrinsic caus…
Panentheistic, monistic, non-necessitarian
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 these two interpretations. With scholars in the first camp, it is argued that Leibniz was a substance…
Focal Dependence, Logical Priority and the Unity of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
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 in saying that the changeless and separate substance is focally prior to (or the focal meaning of) su…
Perception and Pluralism
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 ‘infinite perception’. Leibniz’s Platonism, however, goes beyond the notion of imitation, including also t…
Qué tan leibnizianos son los “leibnizianos” Wolff y Baumgarten? Reflexiones acerca de la teoría de la armonía preestablecida en ibniz, Wolff y Baumgarten
La filosofía de Wolff y Baumgarten ha sido tradicionalmente evaluada como nada más que una sistematización, carente de toda originalidad, de las doctrinas de Leibniz. El presente trabajo revisa esta opinión generaliza, concentrándose en el problema específico de la interacción de las sustancias naturales. Se muestra que Wolff y Baumgarten no siguen a Leibniz con el mismo grado de cercanía en relación a algunos de los principios centrales de la te…
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Qué tan leibnizianos son los “leibnizianos” Wolff y Baumgarten? Reflexiones acerca de la teoría de la armonía preestablecida en ibniz, Wolff y Baumgarten
La filosofía de Wolff y Baumgarten ha sido tradicionalmente evaluada como nada más que una sistematización, carente de toda originalidad, de las doctrinas de Leibniz. El presente trabajo revisa esta opinión generaliza, concentrándose en el problema específico de la interacción de las sustancias naturales. Se muestra que Wolff y Baumgarten no siguen a Leibniz con el mismo grado de cercanía en relación a algunos de los principios centrales de la te…
Perception and Pluralism
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 ‘infinite perception’. Leibniz’s Platonism, however, goes beyond the notion of imitation, including also t…
Focal Dependence, Logical Priority and the Unity of Aristotle’s Metaphysics
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 in saying that the changeless and separate substance is focally prior to (or the focal meaning of) su…
Panentheistic, monistic, non-necessitarian
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 these two interpretations. With scholars in the first camp, it is argued that Leibniz was a substance…
Leibniz against occasionalism and Newtonianism
Leibniz famously charged occasionalism with entailing perpetual miracles (Objection from Perpetual Miracles = OPM). But he also extended this criticism to Newton’s theory of universal gravitation. Traditionally, scholars have interpreted this twofold application of OPM as stemming from different concerns in each case: while Leibniz’s anti-occasionalist OPM relies on the metaphysical idea that created substances must be endowed with intrinsic caus…
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (4 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Monism (2 works) · Empiricism (1 works) · History and Theory of Mathematics (1 works) · Humanities (1 works)