Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Nottingham, and Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires). He is currently a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Oriel College and holds the title of Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Resemblance Nominalism (OUP, 2002), and has written extensively on metaphysics and early modern philosophy.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The meaning and status of the Identity of Indiscernibles ; 3. Some early texts ; 4. The Discourse on Metaphysics and Notationes Generales ; 5. Primary Truths ; 6. Leibniz's letter to Casati ; 7. Indiscernible possibilia and the perfection of the world ; 8. The correspondence with Clarke ; 9. Necessity revisited ; 10. The Cartesian material world ; 11. Atoms ; 12. Space and time ; 13. Minds ; 14. Accidents ; 15. Conclusion ; References ; Index

Outstanding examples of what can be called 'analytical history of philosophy': an analysis of a past author's thought conducted with clarity and rigour.

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Nottingham, and Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires). He is currently a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Oriel College and holds the title of Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Resemblance Nominalism (OUP, 2002), and has written extensively on metaphysics and early modern philosophy.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The meaning and status of the Identity of Indiscernibles ; 3. Some early texts ; 4. The Discourse on Metaphysics and Notationes Generales ; 5. Primary Truths ; 6. Leibniz's letter to Casati ; 7. Indiscernible possibilia and the perfection of the world ; 8. The correspondence with Clarke ; 9. Necessity revisited ; 10. The Cartesian material world ; 11. Atoms ; 12. Space and time ; 13. Minds ; 14. Accidents ; 15. Conclusion ; References ; Index

Outstanding examples of what can be called 'analytical history of philosophy': an analysis of a past author's thought conducted with clarity and rigour.

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has taught at the Universities of Edinburgh, Nottingham, and Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires). He is currently a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Oriel College and holds the title of Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Resemblance Nominalism (OUP, 2002), and has written extensively on metaphysics and early modern philosophy.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The meaning and status of the Identity of Indiscernibles ; 3. Some early texts ; 4. The Discourse on Metaphysics and Notationes Generales ; 5. Primary Truths ; 6. Leibniz's letter to Casati ; 7. Indiscernible possibilia and the perfection of the world ; 8. The correspondence with Clarke ; 9. Necessity revisited ; 10. The Cartesian material world ; 11. Atoms ; 12. Space and time ; 13. Minds ; 14. Accidents ; 15. Conclusion ; References ; Index

Outstanding examples of what can be called 'analytical history of philosophy': an analysis of a past author's thought conducted with clarity and rigour.