Part 1 Introductory Material How to Use this Book Abbreviations Editor's Introduction 1 Introduction 2 Substance and Matter 3 Physics and Natural Science 4 The Metaphysics of Causation 5 The Union of Body and Mind 6 Humans, Animals, and their Minds 7 From God to the Best Possible World: Creation, Freedom, and the Community of Rational Minds 8 Leibniz: Life and Influence The Texts Printed in this Edition Part 2 The Texts 1 Discourse on Metaphysics (1686) 2 Correspondence with Arnauld (1686-1687) 3 Reflections on the Advancement of True Metaphysics (1694) 4 New System of the Nature of Substances and their Communication, and of the Union which Exists between the Body and the Soul (1695) 5 Specimen Dynamicum: An Essay in Dynamics (1695) 6 Reply of M.S.F. to M. de L.B.Z. on his System of the Communication between Substances (1695) 7 Remarks on M. Foucher's Objections (1695) 8 Explanation of the New System of the Communication between Substances (1696) 9 Extract from a Letter Written by M. de Leibniz about his Philosophical Hypothesis (1696) 10 Note H to Bayle's Dictionary Article `Rorarius' (1697) 11 Leibniz's Comments on Note H to Bayle's Dictionary Article `Rorarius' (1705?) 12 A Letter to the Editor, Containing an Explanation of the Difficulties which M. Bayle Found with the New System (1698) 13 Nature Itself (1698) 14 Note L to Bayle's Dictionary Article 'Rorarius' (1702) 15 Leibniz's Comments on Note L to Bayle's Dictionary Article `Rorarius' (1705?) 16 Reply to the Comments in the Second Edition of M. Bayle's Critical Dictionary, in the Article 'Rorarius', concerning the System of Pre-established Harmony (1702; published 1716) Harmony Contained in the Second Edition of the Critical Dictionary of M. Bayle (1702; published 1716) 17 Draft Letters from Leibniz to Bayle (1702) 18 Principles of Nature and Grace (1714) 19 Monadology (1714) Part 3 Notes, Bibliography, and Index Notes Bibliography and Further Reading Index.