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1st Edition

Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact

Edited By Julia Weckend, Lloyd Strickland Copyright 2020
334 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

334 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume tells the story of the legacy and impact of the great German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Leibniz made significant contributions to many areas, including philosophy, mathematics, political and social theory, theology, and various sciences. The essays in this volume explores the effects of Leibniz’s profound insights on subsequent generations of thinkers by tracing... Read more

Introduction:



Making Waves: Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact



Lloyd Strickland and Julia Weckend





Part I:　Early Receptions







  1. Leibniz and the Royal Society Revisited




    2. Philip Beeley





  2. Staying Optimistic! The Trials and Tribulations of Leibnizian Optimism




    3. Lloyd Strickland





  3. On Leibniz and Hume – A Point of Contact




    4. Julia Weckend





  4. Kant’s "True Apology for Leibniz"




    5. Nicholas Jolley





    Part II:　Legacy in Science and Metaphysics





  5. Leibnizian Conservation in d’Alembert’s　Traité de dynamique




    6. Tzuchien Tho





  6. Russian Leibnizianism




    7. Frédéric Tremblay





  7. Monkeys and Monads: The Unexpected Marriage between Darwinian Evolutionary Theory and Leibnizian Metaphysics




    8. Jeremy Dunham





  8. "The point of view is in the body": Leibnizian Perspectivism in Contemporary Anthropologies




    9. Arnaud Pelletier





    Part III: Impact in Law, Political Thought and Ecology





  9. The Impact of Leibniz’s Geometric Method for the Law




    10. Christopher Johns





  10. Leibniz and Political Thought




    11. Douglas Moggach





  11. Theoria cum praxi: Leibniz’s Legacy into the Future




Pauline Phemister

Biography

Lloyd Strickland is Professor of Philosophy and Intellectual History at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). His principal research interests are Early Modern Philosophy (especially Leibniz), and Philosophy of Religion. In addition to numerous journal articles he has published nine books, including　Leibniz Reinterpreted (2006),　Leibniz and the Two Sophies (2011), Leibniz’s Monadology (2014), Leibniz on God and Religion (2016),　Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Leibniz (2017, with Julia Weckend and Erik Vynckier),　Proofs of God in Early Modern Europe (2018), and Leibniz's Key Philosophical Writings (2019, with Paul Lodge). He also runs a website which contains many of his translations of Leibniz’s writings:　http://www.leibniz-translations.com



Julia Weckend has taught philosophy at the Universities of Southampton and Reading before joining Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education as a tutor in 2014. Her research interests are Early Modern Philosophy, in particular Leibnizian metaphysics and epistemology. Her publications include papers on Leibniz’s notions of freedom and possibility, Leibniz’s notion of certainty, and a new translation of Leibniz’s "On the True Mystical Theology" to be found in Lloyd Strickland’s volume Leibniz on God and Religion (2016). She is the co-editor of Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Leibniz (2016).

"A fine collection of original essays by leading Leibniz scholars on the impact of his thought in areas as diverse as legal theory, evolution, mathematics, environmental philosophy, and the social sciences." —Richard Arthur, McMaster University, Canada

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