Abstract

Burkhardt has written what I believe will be one of the most useful of the recent books on Leibniz. His project is not, in the main, to overturn any of the major views about Leibniz's logic, but rather to situate the very broad range of the logical writings in their historical perspective. Excellently versed in the history of logic, including contemporary mathematical logic, as well as commanding the relevant Leibniz-literature in German, English and French, he is frequently able to make clear both the sources and the contemporary significance of some of Leibniz's most puzzling logical doctrines.