Download or read book Leibniz, Whitehead and the Metaphysics of Causation written by P. Basile and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the reader to Whitehead's complex and often misunderstood metaphysics by showing that it deals with questions about the nature of causation originally raised by the philosophy of Leibniz. Whitehead's philosophy is an attempt at rehabilitating Leibniz's theory of monads by recasting it in terms of novel ontological categories