Substance and Individuation in Leibniz

This book offers a sustained re-evaluation of the most central and perplexing themes of Leibniz''s metaphysics. In contrast to traditional assessments that view the metaphysics in terms of its place among post-Cartesian theories of the world, Jan Cover and John O''Leary-Hawthorne examine the question of how the scholastic themes which were Leibniz''s inheritance figure - and are refigured - in his...