Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-248) and index.
Leibniz on possible worlds -- Contingentia mundi: Leibniz on the world's contingency -- Leibniz on intermonadic relations -- Leibniz and the plurality of space-time frameworks -- Leibniz and the concept of a system -- The epistemology of inductive reasoning in Leibniz -- Leibniz, Keynes, and the rabbis -- The contributions of the Paris period (1672-1676) to Leibniz's metaphysics -- Leibniz finds a niche (1676-1677) -- Leibniz visits Vienna (1712-1714) -- Process philosophy and monadological metaphysics