Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
The best biographical account is Maria Rosa Antognazza, Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography (2008). E.J. Aiton, Leibniz: A Biography (1985), is also valuable. Nicholas Jolley, Leibniz (2005), is an excellent introduction. Bertrand Russell, A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz, 2nd ed. (1937, reissued 1975), though dated, is still of interest.
More-advanced works on specialized topics include Benson Mates, The Philosophy of Leibniz: Metaphysics and Language (1986); R.C. Sleigh, Jr., Leibniz and Arnauld: A Commentary on Their Correspondence (1990); Robert Merrihew Adams, Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist (1994); Donald Rutherford, Leibniz and the Rational Order of Nature (1995); and Christia Mercer, Leibniz’s Metaphysics: Its Origin and Development (2001). Nicholas Jolley (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz (1995), is a collection of essays on various aspects of Leibniz’s philosophy.
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Article History
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| Modified link of Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Gottfried Leibniz: Metaphysics. | Oct 09, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jun 27, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lemelson-MIT - Gottfried Leibniz. | Dec 17, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Nov 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: LOUIS Pressbooks - Biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Aug 08, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Test Tubes and Tantrums - Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | May 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: PhilArchive - Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646�1716) (PDF). | Mar 22, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 10, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Philosopher's Zone - The Universal Genius: Gottfried Leibniz. | Jan 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Rutgers University - Department of Mathematics - The Mathematical Leibniz. | Nov 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Leibniz Biography (PDF). | Aug 22, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Philosophers - Gottfried Leibniz. | May 03, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 21, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Mar 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Linda Hall Library - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Aug 31, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Story of Mathematics - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | May 25, 2023 | ||
| Fixed misdirected cross-reference. | Jan 14, 2021 | ||
| Cross-references to various articles added. | Jan 05, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jun 11, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Trinity College Dublin - School of Mathematics - Biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz. | Jun 13, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: History-Computer - Biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Aug 08, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Basics of Philosophy - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Aug 08, 2016 | ||
| Removed cross-reference. |
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Jan 19, 2016 | |
| Media added. | Aug 07, 2015 | ||
| Removed sentences stating that Leibniz was the only great philosopher of his era who was forced to earn a living and that Leibniz was a jack-of-all-trades to royalty. | Jun 03, 2014 | ||
| Article revised to mention Leibniz's arguments for the existence of God, the problem of evil, the determinism implicit in his monadology, and his account of human freedom. |
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Jun 03, 2014 | |
| Add new Web site: The University of Adelaide - Biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Mar 28, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: The European Graduate School - Biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Apr 01, 2013 | ||
| Added mentions of the principle of the identity of indiscernibles and the doctrine of the best of all possible worlds. | Feb 27, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Galileo Project - Biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Oct 13, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wolfram Research - Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography - Biography of Gottfried Leibniz. | Oct 13, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Catholic Encycloepdia - Biography of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. | Oct 13, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Oct 13, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Oregon State University - Biography of Leibniz. | Oct 13, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Philosophy of Leibniz. | Oct 13, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Wichita State University - Biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Oct 13, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThinkQuest - Biography of Gottfried WiIhelm Leibniz. | Aug 05, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: Strange Science - Biography of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Apr 16, 2009 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Jul 28, 2008 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Jul 24, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics. | Jul 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Leibniz's Modal Metaphysics. | Jul 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Jul 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. | Jul 10, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Leibniz?s Philosophy of Mind. | Nov 25, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive - Biography of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. |
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Nov 28, 2006 | |
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - The Identity of Indiscernibles. | Nov 05, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Leibniz on the Problem of Evil. | Oct 27, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | May 31, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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