The Philosophy of Leibniz

Bertrand Russell's study of the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz is one of Russell's earliest books and gives us a fascinating glimpse of his philosophical brilliance. This Routledge Classics Edition has a new Foreword by Richard T. W. Arthur.

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Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). A celebrated mathematician and logician and gifted philosopher, Russell remains one of the most genuinely widely read and popular philosophers of modern times.

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Bertrand Russell's study of the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz is one of Russell's earliest books and gives us a fascinating glimpse of his philosophical brilliance. This Routledge Classics Edition has a new Foreword by Richard T. W. Arthur.

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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