Monad and Monadology The Greek term μονάς, from which the word monad is derived, means a "unit" or a "one." In Pythagorean writings it is the unity from which the entire number system, and...

The Monadology (Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz’s works that best define his philosophy, monadism. Written toward the end of his life in order to support a metaphysics of simple substances, the Monadology is thus about formal atoms...

One aim of this paper is to make visible the connection between Searle's views on social reality and his general ontology, and at the same time to show that some peculiar features of his analysis of social reality are a natural outcome of his...