Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Richard T. W. Arthur Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Abbreviations 1. Leibniz's Premisses
2. Necessary Propositions and the Law of Contradiction
3. Contingent Propositions and the Law of Sufficient Reasons
4. The Conception of Substance
5. The Identity of Indiscernibles and the Law of Continuity
6. Why Did Leibniz Believe in an External World?
7. The Philosophy of Matter: As the Outcome of the Principles of Dynamics
8. The Philosophy of Matter: As Explaining Continuity and Extension
9. The Labyrinth of the Continuum
10. The Theory of Space and Time and its Relation to Monadism
11. The Nature of Monads in General
12. Soul and Body
13. Confused and Unconscious Perception
14. Leibniz's Theory of Knowledge
15. Proofs of the Existence of God
16. Leibniz's Ethics. Appendix Index to the Appendix Index