Daniel Garber presents a study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world, elucidating his puzzling metaphysics of monads, mind-like simple substances. Tracing the development of Leibniz's thought, Garber shows how dealing with problems about the physical world led him to a world of animate creatures, and finally to a world of monads.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- 1: First Thoughts
- 2: Reforming Mechanism: Unity
- 3: Reforming Mechanism: Body and Force, Matter and Form (I)
- 4: Reforming Mechanism: Body and Force, Matter and Form (II)
- 5: Complete Individual Concepts, Non-Communication and Causal Connection
- 6: Divine Wisdom and Final Causes
- 7: Leibnizian Phenomenalisms
- 8: Enchanting the World: "...after many corrections and forward steps in my thinking"
- 9: Monads, Bodies and Corporeal Substances: The Endgame
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index