Download or read book Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad written by Daniel Garber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Garber presents a study of Leibniz's conception of the physical world, elucidating his puzzling metaphysics of monads, mind-like simple substances. Tracing the development of Leibniz's thought, Garber shows how dealing with problems about the physical world led him to a world of animate creatures, and finally to a world of monads.