Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Metaphysics and its foundations I |
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Contents
On Leibnizs Metaphysics | 1 |
Monadology | 2 |
Leibnizs Method and the Basis of his Metaphysics | 20 |
Leibniz on Consciousness and Reflection | 28 |
Leibniz on the Two Great Principles of all our Reasonings | 31 |
Leibniz on Substance Activity | 53 |
Leibniz and the Principle | 58 |
Leibnizs Dual Conception of Human Reason | 60 |
Contingence in the Philosophy of Leibniz | 174 |
The Root of Contingency | 187 |
Leibniz and Materialism | 207 |
Leibniz on Possible Worlds | 208 |
Perception and Immateriality in the Nouveaux Essais | 228 |
Reference Essentialism and Modality in Leibnizs | 230 |
As though only God and it existed in the World | 245 |
Leibniz and the Doctrine of InterWorld Identity | 256 |
On the Metaphysics of Leibnizian Space and Time | 62 |
Leibnizs Principle of Reason | 74 |
Space and Time in the Leibnizian Metaphysic | 76 |
Leibnizs Metaphysical Logic | 82 |
The Aristocratic Principle in the Political Philosophy | 86 |
Confused Ideas | 87 |
Leibniz on Truth and Contingency | 97 |
Time and the Monad | 104 |
On Leibnizs Explication of Necessary Truth? | 114 |
Leibnizs Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles | 127 |
Leibnizs Theories of Contingency | 128 |
Motion and Metaphysics in the Young Leibniz | 148 |
Leibniz and Phenomenalism | 150 |
A Note on Leibnizs Metaphysics | 168 |
Leibniz and Occasionalism | 267 |
Leibniz on Freedom | 284 |
Analyticity and Necessity in Leibniz | 290 |
Individual Concepts and Contingent Truths | 308 |
Leibniz on Necessary and Contingent Predication | 330 |
Leibnizs Dynamics and Contingency in Nature 321 | 348 |
Possible Gods | 350 |
Leibniz on Possible Individuals and Possible Worlds | 366 |
The Principle of Continuity and the Evaluation of Theories | 369 |
Possible Worlds in Leibniz | 385 |
Miracles and Laws | 390 |
Science and Justice in Leibnizs Political Thought | 394 |
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