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Lloyd Strickland

Lloyd Strickland[a]
Pronunciation/lɔɪd ˈstrɪklənd/
Born1973 (age 50–51)
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)
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Website

Lloyd Strickland (born 1973) 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]

Recent work

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] and has called for the recuperative broadening of the Western philosophical curriculum.[11] He has also specifically advocated the teaching of African traditional philosophies.[12][13]

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Notes

  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.

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