Part 1: Introductory Material
How to Use this Book
Abbreviations
Editor's Introduction
1. Introduction
2. Substance and Matter
3. Physics and Natural Science
4. The Metaphysics of Causation
5. The Union of Body and Mind
6. Humans, Animals, and their Minds
7. From God to the Best Possible World: Creation, Freedom, and the Community of Rational Minds
8. Leibniz: Life and Influence
The Texts Printed in this Edition
Part 2: The Texts
1. Discourse on Metaphysics (1686)
2. Correspondence with Arnauld (1686-1687)
3. Reflections on the Advancement of True Metaphysics (1694)
4. New System of the Nature of Substances and their Communication, and of the Union which Exists between the Body and the Soul (1695)
5. Specimen Dynamicum: An Essay in Dynamics (1695)
6. Reply of M. S.F. to M. de L.B.Z. on his System of the Communication between Substances (1695)
7. Remarks on M. Foucher's Objections (1695)
8. Explanation of the New System of the Communication between Substances (1696)
9. Extract from a Letter Written by M. de Leibniz about his Philosophical Hypothesis (1696)
10. Note H to Bayle's Dictionary Article `Rorarius' (1697)
11. Leibniz's Comments on Note H to Bayle's Dictionary Article `Rorarius' (1705?)
12. A Letter to the Editor, Containing an Explanation of the Difficulties which M. Bayle Found with the New System (1698)
13. Nature Itself (1698)
14. Note L to Bayle's Dictionary Article 'Rorarius' (1702)
15. Leibniz's Comments on Note L to Bayle's Dictionary Article `Rorarius' (1705?)
16. Reply to the Comments in the Second Edition of M. Bayle's Critical Dictionary, in the Article 'Rorarius', concerning the System of Pre-established Harmony (1702; published 1716) Harmony Contained in the Second Edition of the Critical Dictionary of M. Bayle (1702; published 1716)
17. Draft Letters from Leibniz to Bayle (1702)
18. Principles of Nature and Grace (1714)
19. Monadology (1714)
Part 3: Notes, Bibliography, and Index
Notes
Bibliography and Further Reading
Index