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Lloyd Strickland

Lloyd Strickland is a British philosopher, intellectual historian, Leibniz scholar, and translator of early modern philosophical texts. He is Professor of Philosophy and Intellectual History at Manchester Metropolitan University.[4]

Lloyd Strickland[a]
Pronunciation/lɔɪd ˈstrɪklənd/
Born1973 (age 50–51)
Malmesbury, England[3]
Education
Alma materUniversity of Lancaster
Occupationuniversity lecturer
Notable work
Books published
  • Leibniz Reinterpreted (2006)
  • The Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006)
  • Leibniz and the Two Sophies (2011)
  • Leibniz’s Monadology (2014)
  • Leibniz on God and Religion (2016)
  • Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Leibniz (2017)
  • The Philosophical Writings of Prémontval (2018)
  • Proofs of God in Early Modern Europe (2018)
  • Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact (2019)
  • Leibniz’s Key Philosophical Writings (2020)
  • 100 Awesome Lateral Thinking Puzzles (2022)
  • Leibniz on Binary (2022)
TitleProfessor of Philosophy and Intellectual History[4]
Awards
Eracontemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Schoolanalytic philosophy
Institutions
ThesisThe best of all possible worlds: An exposition and critical examination of Leibnizian optimism (2005)
Main interests
Website

Recent work edit

Strickland was awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship in 2017 from The British Academy for work on the original manuscript of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s 1686 Examen religionis Christianae (Examination of the Christian Religion).[5] Later, the Gerda Henkel Foundation [de; cs; es] awarded him a Forschungsstipendium (research scholarship); this was to support Strickland’s work with American computer scientist Harry Lewis in writing Leibniz on Binary: The Invention of Computer Arithmetic, which was published in November 2022.[6]

Strickland is known for his work on Leibniz, including several volumes of English translations, of which Leibniz on Binary is the latest. It is one of his important contributions to the history of binary and other non-decimal number systems, which include identifying what led Thomas Harriot and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz each to his own independent invention of binary numeration,[7][8] the role of Leibniz’s invention in the birth of modern computing, and elements in the history of base-16 numeration.[9]

Strickland has also become known for his work identifying racially-motivated negationism in the formation of the Western philosophical canon[10][11] and has called for the recuperative broadening of the Western philosophical curriculum.[12] He has also specifically advocated the teaching of African traditional philosophies.[13][14]

Sample publications edit

Books edit

  • Strickland, Lloyd (June 2011), Leibniz and the Two Sophies: The Philosophical Correspondence, The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, vol. 10, Toronto: Iter Press, ISBN 978-0-7727-2084-9
  • Strickland, Lloyd (September 2014), Leibniz’s Monadology: A New Translation and Guide, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-9321-4
  • Strickland, Lloyd, ed. (25 February 2016), Leibniz on God and Religion: A Reader, London: Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN 978-1-4725-8061-0
  • Strickland, Lloyd (March 2018), The Philosophical Writings of Prémontval, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, ISBN 978-1-4985-6356-7
  • Strickland, Lloyd (August 2018), Proofs of God in Early Modern Europe: An Anthology, Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, ISBN 978-1-4813-0931-8
  • Lodge, Paul & Strickland, Lloyd, eds. (15 October 2020), Leibniz’s Key Philosophical Writings: A Guide, Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198844983.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-884498-3, LCCN 2020945342
  • Strickland, Lloyd (June 2022), 100 Awesome Lateral Thinking Puzzles, Olympia Publishers, ISBN 978-1-80074-723-4
  • Strickland, Lloyd & Lewis, Harry Roy (November 2022), Leibniz on Binary: The Invention of Computer Arithmetic, The MIT Press, doi:10.7551/mitpress/14123.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-262-54434-4

Journal articles edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Some sources, such as his International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)[1] and the EThOS catalogue entry for his doctoral thesis,[2] erroneously give his name as “Lloyd H. Strickland”. The name with the middle initial is that of an American social psychologist who began publishing before the philosopher was born.

Citations edit

  1. ^ ISNI
  2. ^ Strickland (thesis)
  3. ^ Strickland (7 October 2020), 1:57–2:04
  4. ^ a b c MMU profile
  5. ^ a b British Academy, Strickland, Dr Lloyd MD160040
  6. ^ a b Gerda Henkel Stiftung, “Leibniz on Binary”
  7. ^ Strickland (April 2023)
  8. ^ Strickland (May 2023)
  9. ^ Strickland & Jones (2023)
  10. ^ Strickland (January 2019)
  11. ^ Strickland & Wang (2023)
  12. ^ Strickland (2018)
  13. ^ Strickland (September 2020)
  14. ^ Strickland (12 October 2020)

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