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By making monads the “basic particulars” of his “system,” Leibniz offers a competing and rival metaphysics to that defended by Strawson in Individuals. The aim of the paper by Paul Rateau “Strawson and His Critique of Monads” is to show that the criticisms raised by the British philosopher in Chapter IV of his book are based on two questionable interpretations: the assimilation of the complete notion of an individual substance to an exhaustive description in general terms, and the reduction of a monad to pure consciousness. The aim is also to reply to the criticism that Leibniz introduced extra-logical considerations into his treatment of the question of individuation.