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What makes up reality, and how? What kinds of entity are fundamental to reality, and how do dependent entities depend on the fundamental ones? How does one entity metaphysically ground another? These questions are central to contemporary metaphysics. The papers in this collection, written by a new generation of metaphysicians, address these and related questions. They investigate the metaphysical concepts of grounding and fundamentality, and the relationship between the fundamental and all the other parts of reality. Together, these papers represent the cutting-edge of a central topic in contemporary metaphysics.

Metaphysics --- Reality --- History --- Philosophy --- Metaphysics - History - Philosophy

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Daniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world. Leibniz's commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz's apparently idealist metaphysics is very puzzling: how can any sensible person think that the world is made up of tiny minds? In this book, Garber tries to make Leibniz's thought intelligible by focusing instead on his notion of body. Beginning with Leibniz's earliest writings, he shows how Leibniz starts as a Hobbesian with a robust sense of the physical world, and how, step by step, he advances to the monadological metaphysics of his later years. Much of the book's focus is on Leibniz's middle years, where the fundamental constituents of the world are corporeal substances, unities of matter and form understood on the model of animals. For Garber monads only enter fairly late in Leibniz's career, and when they enter, he argues, they do not displace bodies but complement them. In the end, though, Garber argues that Leibniz never works out the relation between the world of monads and the world of bodies to his own satisfaction: at the time of his death, his philosophy is still a work in progress.

Monadology. --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, --- Monadology --- Metaphysics --- History --- Metaphysics - History --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, - Freiherr von, - 1646-1716

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"The first focused study of Nietzsche's Dawn, offering a close reading of the text by two of the leading scholars on the philosophy of Nietzsche. Published in 1881, Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality represents a significant moment in the development of Nietzsche's philosophy and his break with German philosophic thought. Though groundbreaking in many ways, Dawn remains the least studied of Nietzsche's work. In Nietzsche's Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of Knowledge, authors Keith Ansell-Pearson and Rebecca Bamfordpresent a thorough treatment of the second of Nietzsche's so-called 'free spirit' trilogy."--Publisher's website.

Metaphysics - History - 19th century --- Epistemology - History - 19th century --- Knowledge, Theory of

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Metaphysics --- anno 1800-1999 --- Germany --- Nihilism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy, German --- History. --- History --- Nihilism (Philosophy) - History. --- Metaphysics - History. --- Philosophy, German - History. --- Metaphysics. --- Métaphysique. --- Nihilism (Philosophy). --- Nihilisme. --- Nihilismus. --- metaphysics. --- nihilism.

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Filosofie van de Middeleeuwen --- Metafysica --- Métaphysique --- Philosophie du Moyen Age --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- History. --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Medieval philosophy --- History --- Scholasticism --- Metaphysics - History.