Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Leibniz (eBook)

Lloyd Strickland is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, with research interests in early modern philosophy and philosophy of religion. His previous publications include Leibniz on God and Religion (2016), Leibniz's Monadology (2014) and Leibniz and the Two Sophies (2011.)Erik Vynckier is Chief Investment Officer at AllianceBernstein Ltd. He graduated as Chemical Engineer at Universiteit Gent, Belgium, and completed his MBA at London Business School, UK, in 2000.Julia Weckend is Lecturer and online-tutor in Philosophy at Oxford University, UK, and has taught courses on the nature of perception, epistemology and scepticism, free will and determinism, the early modern era, the philosophy of mind, and critical reasoning.

Introduction: Lloyd Strickland, Julia Weckend.- SECTION 1: SCIENCE.- Philosophy and science in Leibniz: Maria Rosa Antognazza.- Between learned science and technical knowledge: Leibniz, Leeuwenhoek and the school for microscopists: Alessandro Becchi.- Leibniz, organic matter and astrobiology: Richard T. W. Arthur.-  SECTION 2: METAPHYSICS.- Plenitude and mirrors of God in Leibniz: Nicholas Jolley.- As matter to form so passive to active? The irreducible metaphysics of Leibniz’s Dynamics: Tzuchien Tho.- Conceptual analysis and ontology in the Leibniz – De Volder correspondence: Stefano di Bella.- SECTION 3: EPISTEMOLOGY.- Leibniz’s empirical, not empiricist methodology: Dale Jacquette.- Leibniz on certainty: Julia Weckend.- Leibniz and probability in the moral domain: Chris Meyns.- SECTION 4: RELIGION AND THEOLOGY.- How Leibniz would have responded to the Lisbon earthquake: Lloyd Strickland.- Leibniz on the efficacy and economy of divine grace: Agustín Echavarría.- Eternal punishment, universal salvation and pragmatic theology in Leibniz: Paul Lodge.- BIOGRAPHICAL CONCLUSION.- In the “hinterland” of globalization? Leibniz and the European expansion: Michael Kempe.- Index.