Leibniz: Mind and body

What is Leibniz's solution to the mind-body problem? Can it have empirical refutation?

Your answer may include discussion of the following questions:

• What are different kinds of substances/monads that Leibniz distinguishes?
• Since Leibniz rejects dualism, is there any mind-body problem to solve for him in the first place?
• How does Leibniz's solution differ from occasionalism?
• Does God play any rôle in the explanation that Leibniz offers?

Readings

(Leibniz, 1990, ch. xxvii (until §20))ch. xxvii (until §20)

(Leibniz, 1715c, §§63ff)

Leibniz (1969g,e,b)

Leibniz, `Principles of nature and of grace founded on reason'

Leibniz (1969e)

Leibniz (1969b)

(Mates, 1986, ch. XI)

(Adams, 1994, ch. 10 (except §3))

Further readings

(Leibniz, 1990, i, §§15-19; xxiii, §§15-21)

(Adams, 1994, ch. 9)

(Rutherford, 1995, ch. 8)