Justin E. H. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (Princeton University Press, 2010). In 2011 he will be a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Ohad Nachtomy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He is the author of Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics (Springer, 2007).

From the reviews: "This probing collection of essays paints a fuller picture of Leibniz's natural philosophy by exploring various facets of his views on natural machines and organisms. ... This book goes a long way towards filling a lacuna in existing Leibniz scholarship." (Michael Futch, Metascience, October, 2012)

• Preface; Dan Garber.- Introduction; Justin E. H. Smith and Ohad Nachtomy.- 1. Leibniz vs. Stahl on the Way Machines of Nature Operate; François Duchesneau.- 2. Leibniz’s Animals: Where Teleology Meets Mechanism; Glenn Hartz.- 3. Monads and Machines; Pauline Phemister.- 4. Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines: or What it Means to 'Remain a Machine to the Least of its Parts'; Ohad Nachtomy.- 5. The Organic vs. the Living in the Light of Leibniz’s Aristotelianisms; Enrico Pasini.- 6. The Machine Analogy in Medicine: A Comparative Approach to Leib-niz and His Contemporaries; Raphaële Andrault.- 7. Sennert and Leibniz on Animate Atoms; Andreas Blank.- 8. Continuity or Discontinuity? Some Remarks on Leibniz's Concepts of‘Substantia Vivens’ and ‘Organism’; Antonio Nunziante.- 9. The Organism, or the Machine of Nature: Some Remarks on the Status of Organism in the Substantial Composition; Jeanne Roland.- 10. Action, Perception, Organisation; Anne-Lise Rey.- 11. Perceiving Machines: Leibniz's Teleological Approach to Perception; Evelyn Vargas.- Bibliography.- Name Index.- Subject Index.

Justin E. H. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (Princeton University Press, 2010). In 2011 he will be a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Ohad Nachtomy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He is the author of Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics (Springer, 2007).

From the reviews: "This probing collection of essays paints a fuller picture of Leibniz's natural philosophy by exploring various facets of his views on natural machines and organisms. ... This book goes a long way towards filling a lacuna in existing Leibniz scholarship." (Michael Futch, Metascience, October, 2012)

• Preface; Dan Garber.- Introduction; Justin E. H. Smith and Ohad Nachtomy.- 1. Leibniz vs. Stahl on the Way Machines of Nature Operate; François Duchesneau.- 2. Leibniz’s Animals: Where Teleology Meets Mechanism; Glenn Hartz.- 3. Monads and Machines; Pauline Phemister.- 4. Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines: or What it Means to 'Remain a Machine to the Least of its Parts'; Ohad Nachtomy.- 5. The Organic vs. the Living in the Light of Leibniz’s Aristotelianisms; Enrico Pasini.- 6. The Machine Analogy in Medicine: A Comparative Approach to Leib-niz and His Contemporaries; Raphaële Andrault.- 7. Sennert and Leibniz on Animate Atoms; Andreas Blank.- 8. Continuity or Discontinuity? Some Remarks on Leibniz's Concepts of‘Substantia Vivens’ and ‘Organism’; Antonio Nunziante.- 9. The Organism, or the Machine of Nature: Some Remarks on the Status of Organism in the Substantial Composition; Jeanne Roland.- 10. Action, Perception, Organisation; Anne-Lise Rey.- 11. Perceiving Machines: Leibniz's Teleological Approach to Perception; Evelyn Vargas.- Bibliography.- Name Index.- Subject Index.

Justin E. H. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (Princeton University Press, 2010). In 2011 he will be a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Ohad Nachtomy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He is the author of Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics (Springer, 2007).

From the reviews: "This probing collection of essays paints a fuller picture of Leibniz's natural philosophy by exploring various facets of his views on natural machines and organisms. ... This book goes a long way towards filling a lacuna in existing Leibniz scholarship." (Michael Futch, Metascience, October, 2012)

• Preface; Dan Garber.- Introduction; Justin E. H. Smith and Ohad Nachtomy.- 1. Leibniz vs. Stahl on the Way Machines of Nature Operate; François Duchesneau.- 2. Leibniz’s Animals: Where Teleology Meets Mechanism; Glenn Hartz.- 3. Monads and Machines; Pauline Phemister.- 4. Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines: or What it Means to 'Remain a Machine to the Least of its Parts'; Ohad Nachtomy.- 5. The Organic vs. the Living in the Light of Leibniz’s Aristotelianisms; Enrico Pasini.- 6. The Machine Analogy in Medicine: A Comparative Approach to Leib-niz and His Contemporaries; Raphaële Andrault.- 7. Sennert and Leibniz on Animate Atoms; Andreas Blank.- 8. Continuity or Discontinuity? Some Remarks on Leibniz's Concepts of‘Substantia Vivens’ and ‘Organism’; Antonio Nunziante.- 9. The Organism, or the Machine of Nature: Some Remarks on the Status of Organism in the Substantial Composition; Jeanne Roland.- 10. Action, Perception, Organisation; Anne-Lise Rey.- 11. Perceiving Machines: Leibniz's Teleological Approach to Perception; Evelyn Vargas.- Bibliography.- Name Index.- Subject Index.