• 1: Vlad Alexandrescu: What Someone May Have Whispered in Elisabeth's Ear


• 2: John Russell Roberts: Whichcote and the Cambridge Platonists on Human Nature: An Interpretation and Defense


• 3: Yitzhak Y. Melamed: Spinoza's Deification of Existence


• 4: Mogens Lærke: Leibniz on Spinoza's Political Philosophy


• 5: Stephen Puryear: Motion in Leibniz's Middle Years: A Compatibilist Approach


• 6: Massimo Mugnai: Leibniz's Ontology of Relations: A Last Word?


• 7: Shane Duarte: Leibniz and Monadic Domination


• 8: Stewart Duncan: Toland, Leibniz, and Active Matter


• 9: J. E. McGuire and Edward Slowik: Newton's Ontology of Omnipresence and Infinite Space


• 10: Louis E. Loeb: Epistemological Commitment in Hume's Treatise


• 11: Tad M. Schmalz: Review Essay: Descartes on Forms and Mechanisms, by Helen Hattab, and Descartes's Changing Mind, by Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire


• Index of Names


• Notes to Contributors

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

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.