| Introduction |
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| Leibniz: Life and Works |
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| Principle of Selection and Rationale for the Volume |
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| Selected Bibliography of the Works of Leibniz |
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| Selected Bibliography of Secondary Works |
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| Translations and Other Texts Referred to in the Notes |
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| Part I. Basic Works |
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1 | (4) |
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Preface to a Universal Characteristic (1678-79) |
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5 | (5) |
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Samples of the Numerical Characteristic (1679) |
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10 | (9) |
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On Freedom and Possibility (1680-82?) |
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19 | (4) |
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Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas (1684) |
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23 | (5) |
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28 | (2) |
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30 | (5) |
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Discourse on Metaphysics (1686) |
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35 | (34) |
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From the Letters to Arnauld (1686-87) |
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69 | (21) |
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On Copernicanism and the Relativity of Motion (1689) |
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90 | (4) |
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94 | (4) |
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The Source of Contingent Truths (1685-89?) |
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98 | (3) |
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Notes on Some Comments by Michel Angelo Fardella (1690) |
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101 | (4) |
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Preface to the Dynamics (1691?) |
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105 | (6) |
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Dialogue on Human Freedom and the Origin of Evil (1695) |
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111 | (6) |
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A Specimen of Dynamics (1695) |
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117 | (21) |
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New System of Nature (1695) |
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138 | (7) |
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Note on Foucher's Objection (1695) |
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145 | (2) |
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Postscript of a Letter to Basnage de Beauval (1696) |
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147 | (2) |
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On the Ultimate Origination of Things (1697) |
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149 | (6) |
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155 | (12) |
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From the Letters to Johann Bernoulli (1698-99) |
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167 | (4) |
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From the Letters to de Volder (1699-1706) |
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171 | (15) |
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To Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia, On What Is Independent of Sense and Matter (1702) |
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186 | (7) |
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Letter to Coste, On Human Freedom (1707) |
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193 | (3) |
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Response to Father Tournemine, on Harmony (1708) |
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196 | (1) |
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From the Letters to Des Bosses (1712-16) |
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197 | (9) |
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Principles of Nature and Grace, Based on Reason (1714) |
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206 | (7) |
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The Principles of Philosophy, or, the Monadology (1714) |
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213 | (12) |
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Letter to Samuel Masson, on Body (1716) |
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225 | (5) |
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From the Letters to Wolff (1714-15) |
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230 | (5) |
| Part II. Leibniz on His Contemporaries |
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| A. Descartes and Malebranche |
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Letter to Countess Elizabeth(?), On God and Formal Logic (1678?) |
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235 | (5) |
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Letter to Molanus (?), On God and the Soul (1679?) |
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240 | (5) |
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On the Nature of Body and the Laws of Motion (1678-82) |
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245 | (5) |
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On Body and Force, Against the Cartesians (1702) |
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250 | (7) |
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Conversation of Philarete and Ariste (1712) |
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257 | (11) |
| B. Hobbes and Spinoza |
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268 | (4) |
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Comments on Spinoza's Philosophy (1707?) |
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272 | (9) |
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Two Sects of Naturalists (1677-80) |
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281 | (3) |
| C. Locke |
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From a Letter to Thomas Burnett, on the Occasion of Rereading Locke (1703) |
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284 | (1) |
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From the Letters to Thomas Burnett, on Substance (1699) |
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285 | (5) |
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From a Letter to Lady Masham, on Thinking Matter (1704) |
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290 | (1) |
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Preface to the New Essays (1703-5) |
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291 | (15) |
| D. Berkeley |
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From a Letter to Des Bosses (1715) |
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306 | (1) |
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Remarks on Berkeley's Principles (1714-15) |
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307 | (1) |
| E. Newton |
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Absolute and Relative Motion, from Letters to Huygens (1694) |
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307 | (2) |
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Planetary Theory, from a Letter to Huygens (1690) |
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309 | (3) |
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Against Barbaric Physics (1710-16?) |
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312 | (8) |
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From the Letters to Clarke (1715-16) |
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320 | (38) |
| Appendixes |
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347 | (3) |
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2. Brief Biographies of Some Contemporaries of Leibniz |
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350 | (8) |
| Index |
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