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vii Contents Preface ix 1. Leibniz on Possible Worlds 1 2. Contingentia Mundi: Leibniz on the World’s Contingency 45 3. Leibniz on Intermonadic Relations 68 4. Leibniz and the Plurality of Space-Time Frameworks 92 5. Leibniz and the Concept of a System 106 6. Leibniz and Issues of Eternal Recurrence 117 7. Leibnizian Neo-Platonism and Rational Mechanics 136 8. Leibniz and the World’s Improvability 146 9. The Epistemology of Inductive Reasoning in Leibniz 170 10. Leibniz, Keynes, and the Rabbis 180 11. Leibniz and Socialized Medicine 201 12. The Contributions of the Paris Period (1672–1676) to Leibniz’s Metaphysics 205 13. Leibniz Finds a Niche (1676–1677) 219 14. Leibniz Visits Vienna (1712–1714) 256 15. Leibniz Crosses the Atlantic 289 16. Leibniz and American Philosophy 300 17. Leibniz and Cryptography 313 18. Leibniz’s Machina Deciphratoria: A Seventeenth-Century Proto-Enigma Machine 352 19. Process Philosophy and Monadological Metaphysics 369 20. Was Leibniz Ennobled? 379 21. Leibniz Disillusioned: Parting Ways from J. D. Crafft 385 Postscript 397 Index 401 viii ...