Oxford University Press is proud to announce an annual volume presenting a selection of the best new work in the history of philosophy.
Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy will focus 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 will also publish papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought.
The articles in OSEMP will be of importance to specialists within the discipline, but the editors also intend that they should appeal to a larger audience of philosophers, intellectual historians, and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.

• Letter from the editors


• 1: Helen Hattab: Conflicting Casualties: The Jesuits, their Opponents, and Descartes on the Causality of the Efficient Cause


• 2: Gregory Walski: The Cartesian God and the Eternal Truths


• 3: Lisa Shapiro: What do the Expressions of the Passions tell Us?


• 4: Jean-Robert Armogathe and Vincent Carraud: The First Condemnation of Descartes' Oeuvres: some Unpublished Documents from the Vatican Archives


• 5: Michael J. Green: Justice and Law in Hobbes


• 6: Syliane Malinowski-Charles: The Circle of Adequate Knowledge: Notes on Reason and Intuition in Spinoza


• 7: Emanuela Scribano: False Enemies: Malebranche, Leibniz, and the Best of All Possible Worlds


• 8: Richard Arthur: The Enigma of Leibniz's Atomism


• 9: James A. Harris: Answering Bayle's Question: Religious Belief in the Moral Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment