The last "universal genius," Gottfried Leibniz, was born on this date in 1646. For our episode in 2015, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Shuka Kalantari, to integrate the facts and differentiate them from the fictions about Leibniz's role in the discovery of the calculus. @followers | Philosophy Talk

Gottfried Leibniz, the most important philosopher you know the least about, was born on this day in 1646. In 2015 John and Ken explored his life and thought with Daniel Garber from Princeton University, author of "Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad"—LISTEN: https://www.philosophytalk.org/shows/leibniz. | Philosophy Talk