Lloyd Strickland (born 1973) is a

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Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to many ...

scholar, and

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philosophical texts. He is

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of Philosophy and Intellectual History at

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Recent work

Strickland was awarded a Mid-Career Fellowship in 2017 from

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for work on the original manuscript of

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to ...

’s 1686 '' Examen religionis Christianae'' (''Examination of the Christian Religion''). Later, the awarded him a (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. 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

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and other non-decimal number systems, which include identifying what led

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and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz each to his own independent invention of binary numeration, the role of Leibniz’s invention in the birth of modern computing, and elements in the history of base-16 numeration. Strickland has also become known for his work identifying racially-motivated negationism in the formation of the Western philosophical canon and has called for the recuperative broadening of the Western philosophical

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. He has also specifically advocated the teaching of African traditional philosophies.

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