In What Sense Are Leibnizian Bodies Extended?

The Department of Philosophy at NYU presents its annual conference on issues in modern philosophy titled Understanding Space and Time. As part of this conference, Daniel Garber and Anja Jauernig gave a lecture titled "In What Sense Are Leibnizian Bodies Extended?" This lecture was recorded on November 11, 2006 at NYU's Kimmel Center for University Life.

Daniel Garber, Professor of Philosophy, is also an Associate Member of the Program in History of Science, Princeton University. Professor Garber is the author of Descartes' Metaphysical Physics (1992) and Descartes Embodied (2001), and is co-editor with Michael Ayers of the Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (1998). Professor Garber is also the co-editor with Steven Nadler of the Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, an annual. He is currently working on a variety of topics, including studies of Aristotelianism and its opponents in early seventeenth-century France and physics and philosophy in Leibniz's thought.

Anja Jauernig is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.  Professor Jauernig's research interests are Kant, Post-Kantian German Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, and Early Modern Philosophy (specifically Leibniz).

Each conference invites a number of distinguished philosophers to examine the development of a central philosophical problem from early modern philosophy to the present, seeking to understand the evolution of formulations of the problem and of approaches to resolving it. By examining the work of philosophers of the past both in historical context and in relation to contemporary philosophical thinking, the conferences aim to allow philosophy’s past and present to illuminate each other.