The remaining four are based upon materials previously published in learned journals or anthologies. (However, these previously published papers have been revised and, generally, expanded for inclusion here.) Detailed acknowl­ edgement of prior publications is made in the notes to the relevant articles.

I. Leibniz on Creation and the Evaluation of Possible Worlds.- 1. Stagesetting.- 2. Mathematico-Physical Inspiration.- 3. Epistemological Implications.- 4. Leibniz as a Pioneer of the Coherence Theory of Truth.- II. The Epistemology of Inductive Reasoning in Leibniz.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Extraction of General Truths from Experience.- 3. Concluding Observations.- III. Leibniz and the Concept of a System.- 1. The Concept of a System.- 2. Leibniz as System Builder.- 3. Why System?.- 4. Cognitive vs. Ontological Systematicity.- 5. System and Infinite Complexity.- IV. Leibniz on the Infinite Analysis of Contingent Truths.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Analysis.- 3. Calculus as the Inspiration of Infinite Analysis.- 4. A Metaphysical Calculus of Perfection-Optimization.- 5. Conclusion.- V. Leibniz on Intermonadic Relations.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Crucial Role of Relations in Incompossibility.- 3. The Reducibility of Relations.- 4. Relational Reducibility and Incompossibility.- 5. Reducibility Not a Logical But a Metaphysical Thesis.- 6. The Reality of Intermonadic Relations.- 7. Abstract Relations.- VI. Leibniz and the Plurality of Space-Time Frameworks.- 1. The Question of Distinct Frameworks.- 2. Spatiality: The Conception of Space as Everywhere the Same.- 3. One World, One Space.- 4. Distinct Worlds Must Have Distinct Spaces.- 5. How are Distinct Spaces Distinct?.- 6. Why Distinct Spaces?.- 7. A Superspace After All?.- 8. Cross-World Spatial Comparisons.- 9. Must the Spatial Structure of Other Worlds Be Like that of Ours?.- 10. The Important Fact That, for Leibniz, Time is Coordinate With Space.- 11. Can a Possible World Lack Spatiotemporal Structure?.- VII. The Contributions of the Paris Period (1672–76) to Leibniz’s Metaphysics.- 1. Overview of Cardinal Theses ofLeibniz’s Metaphysics.- 2. A Missing Piece.- 3. Conclusion.- Appendix: Rescher on Leibniz, with Bibliography.- Index of Names.