Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 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. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought.

• Note from the Editors


• 1: Tad Schmaltz: Deflating Descartes' Causal Axiom


• 2: Lawrence Nolan and John Whipple: The Dustbin Theory of Mind: A Cartesian Legacy?


• 3: C. P. Ragland: Is Descartes a Libertarian?


• 4: Richard Lee: The Scholastic Resources for Descartes' Concept of God as Causa Sui


• 5: Doug Jesseph: Hobbesian Mechanics


• 6: Dan Kaufman: Locks, Schlocks, and Poisoned Peas: Boyle on Actual and Dispositive Qualities


• 7: Karen Detlefsen: Atomism, Monism, and Causation in the Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish


• 8: Roger Ariew: Descartes, the First Cartesians, and Logic


• 9: Eric Watkins: On the Necessity and Nature of Simples: Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, and the Pre-Critical Kant


• 10: Dennis Des Chene: Review Essay: Descartes' Theory of Mind, by Desmond Clarke