A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz : With an Appendix of Leading Passages

London: George Allen & Unwin. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. (1949). Hardcover. Some fading to spine. 10mm splits to cloth at head of joints. Lacking the dust-jacket. Pencil underlining and marginalia on a few pages. Provenance: Annette Baier (1919-2012), philosopher & Kurt Baier (1917-2010), philosopher. Name in ink on front endpaper "Baier" (Annette Baier). Ex-libris bookplate, "K. und A. Baier". ; 1949 printing of the 1937 second edition of a title first published in 1900. xxii, [2], 311, [1 (blank)] pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 136mm. With a 5 page "Preface to the Second Edition" dated 1937, followed by the 5 page "Preface to the First Edition" dated 1900. Contents: Leibniz's Premisses; Necessary Propositions and the Law of Contradiction; Contingent Propositions and the Law of Sufficient Reason; The Conception of Substance; The Identity of Indiscernibles and the Law of Continuity. Possiblity and Compossibility; Why Did Leibniz Believe in an External World?; The Philosophy of Matter: (a) As the Outcome of the Principle of Dynamics; The Philosophy of Matter (Continued), (b) As Explaining Continuity and Extension; The Labyrinth of the Continuum; The Theory of Space and Time and Its Relation to Monadism; The Nature of Monads in General; Soul and Body; Confused and Unconscious Perception; Leibniz's Theory of Knowledge; Proofs of the Existence of God; Leibniz's Ethics; Appendix. "Shortly after the publication of the first edition of this book, its principal thesis - namely, that Leibniz's philosophy was almost entirely derived from his logic - received overwhelming confirmation from the work of Louis Couturat." - from the Preface to the Second Edition, page v. .