It is argued that Gottfried Leibniz was a remarkable thinker, who made fundamental contributions not only to philosophy, but also to the development of modern mathematics and science. At the centre of Leibniz's philosophy stands his metaphysics, an ambitious attempt to discover the nature of reality through the use of unaided reason. This volume aims to provide a systematic and comprehensive account of the full range of Leibniz's thought, exploring the metaphysics and showing its subtle and complex relationship to his views on logic, language, physics, and theology. Other chapters examine the intellectual context of his thought and its reception in the 18th-century.
