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Preface and Acknowledgements ix
1 Introduction: From Leibniz to Whitehead 1
2 The Conception of Substance: Whitehead, Russell, and Leibniz 7
Introduction 7
Actual entities 7
The relatedness of actualities 12
Revisionary metaphysics and the language of process 17
Russell on Leibniz's conception of substance 24
Russell's critique of Leibniz 26
Conclusion 30
3 The Relevance of Leibniz: Ward's Theory of Monads 32
Introduction 32
A Cambridge philosopher: James Ward 32
Materialism and the fallacy of misplaced concreteness 33
Back to Leibniz: idealism, panpsychism, and evolution 35
Lotze on pre-established harmony and monadic interaction 41
Lotze as a process philosopher 47
Ward on substance and intermonadic causation 49
Ward on mind and the order of nature 54
In search of a new theism 58
Conclusion 61
4 The Phenomenology of Causation: Whitehead and Hume 63
Introduction: Whitehead, Leibniz, and Hume 63
Perception in the mode of causal efficacy 66
Whitehead on Hume's empiricism 68
Whitehead on Hume on causation 70
Hume on the vulgar notion of causation 77
Conclusion: Kant on monadism and causation 80
5 The Metaphysics of Causation: Whitehead, Hume, and James 84
Introduction 84
Whitehead on Hume's theory of the mind 84
James, Whitehead, and the specious present 91
Understanding causation through metaphysical generalization 95
Whitehead's answer to Leibniz 98
Sprigge on Whitehead on 'objectification' and 'prehension' 100
Conclusion 104
6 The Reality of Forms: Whitehead's Theistic Argument 106
Introduction 106
The argument from the reality of the eternal objects 108
The threat ofSpinozism: are there unrealized possibilities? 111
The ontological principle 113
The divine vision and the independency of the forms 114
The principle of relativity 118
A final doubt 122
7 The Final View: The Dipolar Conception of God 125
Introduction 125
God, creation, and the order of reality 126
The consequent nature of God 128
God and the world 134
Open questions 138
Conclusion 142
8 Epilogue: Is a Leibnizian Metaphysics Still Possible Today? 144
Notes 148
Bibliography 160
Index 169
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Michael Warner
reviewed Leibniz, Whitehead and the Metaphysics of Causation on December 30, 2009
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I wonder who this book was targeted at. It is not a fun pop-science book, if names like Lakoff, Ross or Chomsky-the-linguist do not ring a bell then you'll probably read less than twenty pages (out of 400), it is too boring. However, if you know what these people are famous for, you probably also know something about linguistics and would like to see more technical substance which the book is short of. So who would appreciate it other than a student in linguistics writing a semester essay about how wrong linguists were just 50 years ago (and still are)?
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