Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introductory
1. The Philosophy of Nature
Part II: Historical
2. The Modern Concept of Nature
3. The Physical as Matter
4. Matter and Mind
5. Atomism, Substance, and the Concept of Body
6. Leibniz and the Analysis of Matter and Motion
7. Concepts of Space
8. The Meaning of "Space" in Kant
Part III: Issues
9. The Problem of the Physical Existent
10. The Physical Existent as a Compound Actuality
l1 The Problem of Relations
12. Physical Existence, Matter, Activity
13. Compounds, Body, Change
14. Motion, Action, and Physical Being
15. Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Modern Science
Index