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Leibniz's enigmatic Monadology, written in 1714, is rightfully recognised as one of the most important and interesting texts in the history of philosophy. It is Leibniz's most succinct and systematic outline of his metaphysics of monads and it includes highly influential discussions pertaining to mereology, modality, theology, and the philosophy of mind. This conference will be dedicated to celebrating the 300-year anniversary of this crucial work by exploring its legacy and reception through an examination of several philosophers who have attempted to develop his system.Provisional ProgrammeMonday, 12 May 201409:30 - 10:00 - Registration and Coffee10:00 - 11:00 - Delphine Kolesnik-Antoine (ENS de Lyon):"The use of the monadological argument in nineteenth-century Frenchspiritualism: Examples and issues"11:05 - 12:35 - Jeremy Dunham (Edinburgh):"Félix Ravaisson's Theory of Substance"12:35 - 14:00 - Lunch14:00 - 15:00 - Pierfrancesco Basile (Bern):"Learning from Leibniz: Whitehead and Russell on Mind, Matter and Monads"15:05 - 16:00 - Emily Thomas (Groningen):"British Idealist Monadologies and the Reality of Time: Oakeley AgainstMcTaggart et al"16:00 - 16:30 - Coffee16:30 - 17:30 - Paul Lodge (Oxford):"Heidegger on the Being of Leibniz's Monads"19:00 - Dinner (Spoon)Tuesday, 13 May 201409:00 - 09:30 - Coffee09:30 - 10:30 - Mogens Laerke (ENS de Lyon/Aberdeen):"Monads and worlds in Deleuze's Le Pli"10:35 - 11:35 - Jo Edwards (UCL):"Perception, Physics and Metaphysics 1714-2014"11:35 - 12:00 - Coffee12:00 - 13:00 - Richard Fincham (American University of Cairo):"Reconciling Leibnizian Monadology and Kantian Criticism: The case ofMaimon and Schelling"For further details and registration see:http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/events/view/three-hundred-years-of-leibnizNote: The workshop runs on the two days immediately before the ScottishSeminar in Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, which willbe held on the 14th and 15th of May and organized by Professor Mogens Laerkeand Dr Beth Lord. The Edinburgh conference will end at lunch time on the13th to allow participants to travel to Aberdeen in time for thisconference. The annual British Society for the History of Philosophyconference, this year dedicated to 'Scottish Common Sense Philosophy', willalso be held at Edinburgh on the 7th - 9th of May.