A remarkable thinker, Gottfried Leibniz made fundamental contributions not only to philosophy, but also to the development of modern mathematics and science. At the center of Leibniz\'s philosophy stands his metaphysics, an ambitious attempt to discover the nature of reality through the use of unaided reason....

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was hailed by Bertrand Russell as \'one of the supreme intellects of all time\'. A towering figure in seventeenth-century philosophy, his complex thought has been championed and satirized in equal measure, most famously in Voltaire\'s Candide....