Leibniz: what kind of rationalist

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Content: Abbreviations.- Introduction.- Part I: Reinterpreting Leibniz's Rationalism?.- 1. Leibniz' rationalism: A plea against equating soft and hard rationality Heinrich Schepers.- 2. Leibniz's multi-purpose dialectics Marcelo Dascal.- 3. Leibniz's rationality: Divine intelligibility and human intelligibility Ohad Nachtomy.- Part II: Natural Sciences and Mathematics.- 4. De abstracto et concreto: Empirical science and rationalism in Leibniz Philip Beeley.- 5. Leibniz against the unreasonable Newtonian physics Laurence Bouquiaux.- 6. Hermetic rationalism: Some hermetic aspects of Leibniz's mathematical rationalism Bernardino Orio de Miguel.- 7. Symbolic inventiveness and 'irrational' practices in Leibniz's mathematics Michel Serfati.- 8. The art of mathematical rationality Herbert Breger.- Part III: Epistemology.- 9. Ramus and Leibniz on analysis Andreas Blank.- 10. Locke, Leibniz, and Hume on form and experience Emily Rolfe Grosholz.- 11. Leibniz's conception of natural explanation Marta de Mendonca.- 12. The role of metaphor in Leibniz's epistemology Cristina Marras.- 13. What is the foundation of knowledge? Leibniz and the amphibology of intuition Marine Picon.- Part IV: Law.- 14. Leibniz: What kind of legal rationalism? Pol Boucher.- 15. Two argumentative uses of the notion of uncertainty in Leibniz's De conditionibus Alexandre Thiercelin.- 16. Contingent propositions and Leibniz's analysis of juridical dispositions Evelyn Vargas.- 17. Leibniz on natural law in the Nouveaux Essais Patrick Riley.- Part V: Ethics.- 18. Authenticity or autonomy? Leibniz and Kant on practical rationality Carl J. Posy.- 19. The place of the other in Leibniz's rationalism Noa Naaman.- 20. Morality and feeling: Genesis and determination of the will in Leibniz Adelino Dias Cardoso.- 21. Leibniz and moral rationality Martine de Gaudemar.- Part VI: Decision Making.- 22. Leibniz's models of rational decision Markku Roinila.- 23. Electing the King of Poland: From the concatenation of proofs to a calculus of decisions Jeremie Griard.- 24. Declarative vs. procedural rules for religious controversies: Leibniz's rational approach to heresy Frederic Nef.- 25. Apology for a credo maximum: Three basic rules in Leibniz's method of religious controversy Mogens Laerke.- Part VII: Religion and Theology.- 26. Convergence or genealogy? Leibniz and the spectre of Pagan rationality Justin E. H. Smith.- 27. 'Paroles entierement destituees de sens': 'Pathic reason' in the Theodicee Giovanni Scarafile.- 28. The authority of the Bible and the authority of Reason in Leibniz's ecumenical argument Hartmut Rudolph.- 29. Leibniz on creation: A contribution to his philosophical theology Daniel Cook.- Part VIII: The Metaphysics of Rationality.- 30. For a history of Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason: The first formulations and their historical background Francesco Piro.- 31. Innate ideas as the cornerstone of Leibniz's rationalism: The problem of moral principles in the Nouveaux essais Hans Poser.- 32. Causa sive ratio: Univocity of reason and plurality of causes in Leibniz Stefano Di Bella.- Index.