Maria Rosa Antognazza - The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz

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To

Sophia Antognazza Hotson

31 May 1999 7 March 2018

loving, brave, wise

Maria Rosa Antognazza

Maria Rosa Antognazza

Massimo Mugnai

Massimo Mugnai

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Donald Rutherford

Jeffrey K. McDonough

Paul Rateau

Stefano Di Bella

Martha Bolton

Arnaud Pelletier

Massimo Mugnai

Siegmund Probst

Eberhard Knobloch

Vincenzo De Risi

James Cussens

Richard T. W. Arthur

Philip Beeley

Daniel Garber and Tzuchien Tho

Daniel Garber

Donald Rutherford

Heinrich Schepers

Adam Harmer

Heinrich Schepers

Jeffrey K. McDonough

Domenico Bertoloni Meli

Andre Wakefield

Franois Duchesneau

Justin E. H. Smith

Anne-Lise Rey

Matthew L. Jones

Hartmut Hecht and Jrgen Gottschalk

Hartmut Rudolph

Howard Hotson

Maria Rosa Antognazza

Margherita Palumbo

Gregory Brown

Alberto Artosi and Giovanni Sartor

Friedrich Beiderbeck

Stephan Waldhoff

Brandon C. Look

Maria Rosa Antognazza

Maria Rosa Antognazza

Maria Rosa Antognazza

Maria Rosa Antognazza is Professor of Philosophy at Kings College London

Richard T. W. Arthur is Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University

Alberto Artosi is Professor of Legal Theory, Legal Logic and Legal Argumentation in the Faculty of Law, University of Bologna

Philip Beeley is Research Fellow in the History Faculty, University of Oxford

Friedrich Beiderbeck is one of the editors of the political writings of Leibniz at the Leibniz-Editionsstelle of Potsdam (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Domenico Bertoloni Meli is Provost Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Indiana University, Bloomington

Martha Bolton is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University

Gregory Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston

James Cussens is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, University of York

Vincenzo De Risi is CNRS Research Fellow in Paris (research group SPHre Science, Historie, Philosophie)

Stefano Di Bella is Associate Professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Milan

Franois Duchesneau is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Universit de Montral

Daniel Garber is the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University

Jrgen Gottschalk is a member of the Zentrum fr Geschichte der Naturwissenschaft und Technik at the University of Hamburg

Adam Harmer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside

Hartmut Hecht is the former director of the Leibniz-Editionsstelle of Berlin (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), where Leibnizs scientific, technical and medical writings are edited

Howard Hotson is Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History at the University of Oxford

Matthew L. Jones is the James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization at Columbia University

Eberhard Knobloch is Professor of History of Science and Technology at the Technische Universitt Berlin (TUB)

Brandon C. Look is University Research Professor at the University of Kentucky

Jeffrey K. McDonough is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University

Massimo Mugnai is Emeritus Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa

Margherita Palumbo is a former curator at the Biblioteca Casanatense (Rome)

Arnaud Pelletier is Professor of Philosophy at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)

Siegmund Probst is one of the editors of the mathematical writings of Leibniz at the Leibniz-Forschungsstelle / Leibniz-Archiv Hannover (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Gttingen)

Paul Rateau is Assistant Professor at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris

Anne-Lise Rey is Matre de Conferences at the University of Lille

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra is Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Oxford

Hartmut Rudolph is the former director of the Leibniz-Editionsstelle of Potsdam (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), where Leibnizs political writings are edited

Donald Rutherford is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego

Giovanni Sartor is Professor of Legal Informatics and Legal Theory at the European University Institute of Florence and at the University of Bologna

Heinrich Schepers is the former director of the Leibniz-Forschungsstelle of Mnster (University of Mnster and Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Gttingen), where Leibnizs philosophical writings are edited

Justin E. H. Smith is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Paris 7, Denis Diderot

Tzuchien Tho is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bristol

Andre Wakefield is Professor of History at Pitzer College, Claremont Colleges

Stephan Waldhoff is one of the editors of the political writings of Leibniz at the Leibniz-Editionsstelle of Potsdam (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)