Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact

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).

Introduction:

Making Waves: Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact

Lloyd Strickland and Julia Weckend

Part I: Early Receptions






Leibniz and the Royal Society Revisited
Philip Beeley




Staying Optimistic! The Trials and Tribulations of Leibnizian Optimism
Lloyd Strickland




On Leibniz and Hume – A Point of Contact
Julia Weckend




Kant’s "True Apology for Leibniz"
Nicholas Jolley

Part II: Legacy in Science and Metaphysics




Leibnizian Conservation in d’Alembert’s Traité de dynamique
Tzuchien Tho




Russian Leibnizianism
Frédéric Tremblay




Monkeys and Monads: The Unexpected Marriage between Darwinian Evolutionary Theory and Leibnizian Metaphysics
Jeremy Dunham




"The point of view is in the body": Leibnizian Perspectivism in Contemporary Anthropologies
Arnaud Pelletier

Part III: Impact in Law, Political Thought and Ecology




The Impact of Leibniz’s Geometric Method for the Law
Christopher Johns




Leibniz and Political Thought
Douglas Moggach




Theoria cum praxi: Leibniz’s Legacy into the Future

Pauline Phemister