Leibniz: Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science

Leibniz: Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science
R.S. Woolhouse (ed.)

The Discourse on Metaphysics and the Correspondence with Arnauld together form the best introduction to Leibniz's thought. This collection includes essays which taken together cover most of hte central themes of these related works and provide a groundwork of exegesis, explanation, and criticism essential for the student of Leibniz and his ideas.

I. Leibniz and the logical argument for individual substances / John W. Nason
II. Meditations Leibniziennes / Wilfrid Sellars
III. Necessity and contingency in Leibniz / Dennis Fried
IV. Contingent truths and possible worlds / Hidé Ishiguro
V. Leibniz's theory of the striving possibles / David Blumenfeld
VI. Leibniz on compossibility and relational predicates / Fred D'Agostino
VII. The correspondence between Leibniz and De Volder / L.J. Russell
VIII. Leibniz's dynamics and contingency in nature / Margaret D. Wilson
IX. The vis viva controversy / David Papineau
X. Leibniz's last controversy with the Newtonians / C.D. Broad