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
Biography
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.
'It is impossible not to see in Mr. Russell's work elements of real originality and great power of argument...' - The Guardian
