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Leibniz, Whitehead and the Metaphysics of Causation

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  • © 2009

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  1. Pierfrancesco Basile
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: From Leibniz to Whitehead

    • Pierfrancesco Basile
    Pages 1-6

  3. The Conception of Substance: Whitehead, Russell, and Leibniz

    • Pierfrancesco Basile
    Pages 7-31

  4. The Relevance of Leibniz: Ward’s Theory of Monads

    • Pierfrancesco Basile
    Pages 32-62

  5. The Phenomenology of Causation: Whitehead and Hume

    • Pierfrancesco Basile
    Pages 63-83

  6. The Metaphysics of Causation: Whitehead, Hume, and James

    • Pierfrancesco Basile
    Pages 84-105

  7. The Reality of Forms: Whitehead’s Theistic Argument

    • Pierfrancesco Basile
    Pages 106-124

  8. The Final View: The Dipolar Conception of God

    • Pierfrancesco Basile
    Pages 125-143

  9. Epilogue: Is a Leibnizian Metaphysics Still Possible Today?

    • Pierfrancesco Basile
    Pages 144-147

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 148-174
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About this book

Introduces the reader to Whitehead's complex and often misunderstood metaphysics by showing that it deals with questions about the nature of causation originally raised by the philosophy of Leibniz. Whitehead's philosophy is an attempt at rehabilitating Leibniz's theory of monads by recasting it in terms of novel ontological categories

About the author

PIERFRANCESCO BASILE teaches Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His publications include Experience and Relations: An Examination of F. H. Bradley's Conception of Reality (1999) and several articles and edited books on the origin of analytic philosophy, British idealism and process philosophy. 

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