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part Part I Matter, Space and Relations -- chapter 1 John W. Nason (1945), 'Leibniz's Attack on the Cartesian Doctrine of Extension', Journal of the History of Ideas, 6, pp. 447-83 -- chapter 2 John Earman (1977), 'Perceptions and Relations in the Monadology', Studia Leibnitiana, 9, pp. 212-30 -- chapter 3 Richard Arthur (1994), 'Space and Relativity in Newton and Leibniz', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 45, pp. 219-40 -- part Part II Leibnizian Substances -- chapter 4 David S. Scarrow (1973), 'Reflections on the Idealist Interpretation of Leibniz's Philosophy', Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa, 12, pp. 85-93 -- chapter 5 Donald P. Rutherford (1990), 'Leibniz's -- chapter 6 John Kronen (1997), 'Substances are not Windowless: A Suarézian Critique of Monadism', American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 71, pp. 59-81 -- part Part III Life, Mind and Action -- chapter 7 Samuel Scheffler (1976), 'Leibniz on Personal Identity and Moral Personality', Studia Leibnitiana, 8, pp. 219-40 -- chapter 8 Mark Kulstad (1981), 'Leibniz, Animals, and Apperception', Studia Leibnitiana, 13, pp. 25-60 -- chapter 9 Ezio Vailati (1990), 'Leibniz on Locke on Weakness of Will', Journal of the History of Philosophy, 28, pp. 213-28 -- chapter 10 William Seager (1991), 'The Worm in the Cheese: Leibniz, Consciousness and Matter', Studia Leibnitiana, 23, pp. 79-91 -- chapter 11 Catherine Wilson (1994), 'Leibniz and the Logic of Life', Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 48, pp. 237-53 -- part Part IV Matephysics -- chapter 12 William E. May (1962), 'The God of Leibniz', New Scholasticism, 36, pp. 506-28 -- chapter 13 Raja Bahlul (1992), 'Leibniz, Aristotle, and the Problem of Individuation', Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 73, pp. 185-99 -- chapter 14 Daniel Fouke (1994), 'Emanation and the Perfections of Being: Divine Causation and the Autonomy of Nature in Leibniz', Archiv Fuer Geschichte der Philosophie, 76, pp. 168-94 -- chapter 15 Steven Nadler (1994), 'Choosing a Theodicy: The Leibniz-Malebranche-Arnauld Connection', Journal of the History of Ideas, 50, pp. 573-89 -- chapter 16 David Scott (1997), 'Leibniz and the Two Clocks', Journal of the History of Ideas, 58, pp. 445-63 -- chapter 17 Jack Davidson (1998), 'Imitators of God: Leibniz on Human Freedom', Journal of the History of Philosophy, 36, pp. 387-412 -- part Part V Leibniz in Context -- chapter 18 Donald F. Lach (1945), 'Leibniz and China', Journal of the History of Ideas, 6, pp. 436-55 -- chapter 19 Carolyn Merchant (1979), 'The Vitalism of Anne Conway: Its Impact on Leibniz's Concept of the Monad', Journal of the History of Philosophy, 17, pp. 255-69 -- chapter 20 Nicholas Rescher (1981), 'Leibniz and the Concept of a System', Studia Leibnitiana, 13, pp. 114-22 -- chapter 21 Michael Losonsky (1992), 'Leibniz's Adamic Language of Thought', Journal of the History of Philosophy, 30, pp. 523-43 -- chapter 22 Domenico Bertoloni Meli (1988), 'Leibniz on the Censorship of the Copernican System', Studia Leibnitiana, 20, pp. 19-42.

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