Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Leibniz

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.