Donald Rutherford is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

• 1: Mattia Mantovani: The Institution of Nature: Descartes on Human and Animal Perception


• 2: Nabeel Hamid: Substance, Causation, and the Mind-Body Problem in Johann Clauberg


• 3: Sandrine Roux: La Forge's Partial Occasionalism: Why God Does Not Do Everything


• 4: Colin Chamberlain: What Is It Like to Be a Material Thing: Henry More and Margaret Cavendish on the Unity of the Mind


• 5: Hasana Sharp: Spinoza on the Fear of Solitude


• 6: Matthew A. Leisinger: Cudworthian Consciousness


• 7: Kenneth L. Pearce: Astell and Masham on Epistemic Authority and Women's Individual Judgment in Religion

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant.