1: Who was Leibniz?
2: Characteristica universalis, logical calculus, and
mathematics
3: Encyclopaedia, Scientia Generalis, and the Academies of
Sciences
4: Possible worlds, the principle of non-contradiction, and the
principle of sufficient reason
5: Complete-concept theory, theory of truth, and theory of
knowledge
6: The best of all possible worlds and Leibniz's theodicy
7: What is ultimately real - unity and activity
8: Monads
9: Monads, corporeal substances, and bodies
Conclusion
References
Further Reading
Index
Maria Rosa Antognazza is Professor of Philosophy at Kings College
London. She has held research and visiting fellowships in Italy,
Germany, Israel, Great Britain, and the USA, including a British
Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (1997-2000) and a two-year research
fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust (2003-5). She is the author of
Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge University Press,
2009) and Leibniz on the Trinity and the Incarnation:
Reason and Revelation in the Seventeenth Century (Yale University
Press, 2007). She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Leibniz
(Oxford University Press, forthcoming), has published numerous
contributions on
seventeenth and eighteenth-century philosophy, and has edited texts
by Leibniz, J. H. Alsted, and H. Grotius.
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