Leibniz’s God was strangely limited by the laws of its own creation. But he was not Panglossian. Mr. Kempe’s appreciative ...

As Queen of Prussia, she yearns for his wise answers to life’s big questions. Leibniz is happy to grant her wish of having his portrait painted so that it can stand in for him in Lietzenburg Castle.

If that meant wearing a powdered wig, so be it. (Every portrait of Leibniz shows him in an enormous wig, which served to conceal his baldness, a lump on his head, and his modest height.) ...

A posthumous insult or a helping hand out of oblivion? The philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is at no risk of being forgotten — he routinely appears on lists of the greatest philosophers of his or ...

91-year-old German filmmaker Edgar Reitz, best known for the influential Heimat trilogy, has started shooting his latest film Leibniz, a portrait of leading Enlightenment thinker Gottfried Wilhelm ...

His earlier-career work on Leibniz, Spinoza, causation, space and time and modality was published in such journals as Philosophical Studies, Noûs, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, ...

Perhaps 50,000 perished. The great philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz—born in Leipzig in 1646—died nearly 40 years before the Lisbon earthquake, but the event would shape his legacy.