On Leibniz : Expanded Edition.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Leibniz on Possible Worlds -- Chapter 2. Contingentia Mundi: Leibniz on the World's Contingency -- Chapter 3. Leibniz on Intermonadic Relations -- Chapter 4. Leibniz and the Plurality of Space-Time Frameworks -- Chapter 5. Leibniz and the Concept of a System -- Chapter 6. Leibniz and Issues of Eternal Recurrence -- Chapter 7. Leibnizian Neo-Platonism and Rational Mechanics -- Chapter 8. Leibniz and the World's Improvability -- Chapter 9. The Epistemology of Inductive Reasoning in Leibniz -- Chapter 10. Leibniz, Keynes, and the Rabbis -- Chapter 11. Leibniz and Socialized Medicine -- Chapter 12. The Contributions of the Paris Period (1672-1676) to Leibniz's Metaphysics -- Chapter 13. Leibniz Finds a Niche (1676-1677) -- Chapter 14. Leibniz Visits Vienna (1712-1714) -- Chapter 15. Leibniz Crosses the Atlantic -- Chapter 16. Leibniz and American Philosophy -- Chapter 17. Leibniz and Cryptography -- Chapter 18. Leibniz's Machina Deciphratoria: A Seventeenth-Century Proto-Enigma Machine -- Chapter 19. Process Philosophy and Monadological Metaphysics -- Chapter 20. Was Leibniz Ennobled? -- Chapter 21. Leibniz Disillusioned: Parting Ways from J. D. Crafft -- Postscript -- Name Index.

On Leibniz examines many aspects of Leibniz's work and life. This expanded edition adds new chapters that explore Leibniz's revolutionary deciphering machine; his theoretical interest in cryptography and its ties to algebra; his thoughts on eternal recurrence theory; his rebuttal of the thesis of improvability in the world and cosmos; and an overview of American scholarship on Leibniz.

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