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.comJulia 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

• Introduction: Making Waves: Leibniz’s Legacy and ImpactLloyd Strickland and Julia WeckendPart I: Early Receptions Leibniz and the Royal Society RevisitedPhilip Beeley Staying Optimistic! The Trials and Tribulations of Leibnizian OptimismLloyd Strickland On Leibniz and Hume – A Point of ContactJulia 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 LeibnizianismFrédéric Tremblay Monkeys and Monads: The Unexpected Marriage between Darwinian Evolutionary Theory and Leibnizian MetaphysicsJeremy Dunham "The point of view is in the body": Leibnizian Perspectivism in Contemporary AnthropologiesArnaud Pelletier Part III: Impact in Law, Political Thought and Ecology The Impact of Leibniz’s Geometric Method for the LawChristopher Johns Leibniz and Political ThoughtDouglas Moggach Theoria cum praxi: Leibniz’s Legacy into the Future Pauline Phemister