Lloyd Strickland is Professor of Philosophy and Intellectual History at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). His principal research interests are Early Modern Philosophy (particularly Leibniz), and Philosophy of Religion. He has published numerous articles on both fields, as well as eight books: Leibniz Reinterpreted (2006), 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, with Erik Vynckier and Julia Weckend), The Philosophical Writings of Prémontval (2018), and Proofs of God in Early Modern Europe (2018). He also runs a website which contains many of his translations of Leibniz’s writings: www.leibniz-translations.com