Aaron Garrett is Associate Professor of philosophy at Boston University, USA. He has published books on Spinoza and Berkeley, articles on many topics in early modern philosophy, and is the co-editor (with James Harris) of the Oxford History of Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy. He is currently working on two books on moral philosophy in the early modern period: The View from the Devil's Mountain: Seventeenth-Century Moral Philosophy and The Reasonableness of Morality.

Introduction: The Eclecticism of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy Aaron Garrett Part 1: Context and Movements 1. Enlightenment, National Enlightenments, and Translation Fania Oz-Salzberger 2. Newton and Newtonianism Eric Schliesser 3. Materialism Charles Wolfe 4. Immaterialism Jasper Reid Part 2: Metaphysics and Understanding 5. Reason, revelation, and arguments for the Deity Maria Rosa Antognazza 6. Reason and Understanding Manfred Kuehn 7. Causation Peter Kail 8. Space, evidence, and the authority of Mathematics in the Eighteenth Century Matthew L. Jones 9. What is Time? Yitzhak Melamed 10. Consciousness and Personal Identity Donald Ainslie & Owen Ware 11. Ways to Certainty Dario Perinetti Part 3: Mind, Soul, and Perception 12. Soul and Mind Thomas Ahnert 13. Liberty, Necessity, and Moral Responsibility James Harris 14. Theories of Perception: Berkeley and his Recent Predecesors Lorne Falkenstein 15. Theories of Perception: After Berkeley Lorne Falkenstein 16. Sensibility Stephen Gaukroger 17. Pleasure, Pain, and Sense Perception Lisa Shapiro Part 4: Morals and Aesthetics 18. Moral Sense and Sentiment Jacqueline Taylor 19. Kant's Moral Philosophy Eric Entrican Wilson 20. Utility and Religion James Crimmins 21. Moral Rationalism and Moral Realism Remy Debes 22. Aesthetics Rachel Zuckert Part 5: Politics and Society 23. The Law of Nature and Nations Ian Hunter 24. Nations, Nationalism, and National Character Silvia Sebastiani 25. Constitutions and Social Contracts Susanne Sreedhar 26. Civil Society Neil McArthur 27. Language Avi Lifschitz Part 6: Philosophy in relation to the Arts and Sciences 28. Philosophy and the Physical Sciences Stephen Gaukroger 29. Philosophy, Natural History, and the Speculative Science of Origins Justin E. Smith 30. Philosophy of the Human Sciences Margaret Schabas 31. Philosophy and History: The Paradoxes of History Alix Cohen 32. Philosophy and Literature C. Allen Speight Part 7: Major Figures 33. David Hume Erin Frykholm 34. Jean- Jacques Rousseau Ryan Hanley 35. Immanuel Kant Manfred Kuehn. Index

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy is an authoritative 35 chapter survey and assessment of this momentous period, covering the major thinkers, topics and movements in Eighteenth century philosophy.