Sarah Hutton holds a chair at Aberystwyth University. Her main area of research is seventeenth century intellectual history, with a special interest in the Cambridge Platonists. Her publications include, Anne Conway. A Woman Philosopher (2004). Newton and Newtonianism (edited with James E. Force, 2004), Platonism and the English Imagination (edited with Anna Baldwin, 1994), and an edition of Ralph Cudworth's Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1996). She is Director of the series International Archives of the History of Ideas.

Paul Schuurman took his PhD degree at Keele University in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. G.A.J. Rogers and works as a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has published on the logic, epistemology and philosophy of science of Locke and Descartes. His latest book is Ideas, Mental Faculties and Method. The New Logic of René Descartes and John Locke and its Reception in the Dutch Republic, 1630-1750. (Leiden: Brill, 2004).

Preface by John Cottingham. Introduction by Sarah Hutton and Paul Schuurman. 1. Victor Nuovo - Aspects of Stoicism in Locke's Philosophy 2. Tom Sorell - Locke and Hobbes on the State of Nature 3. Stuart Brown - The Sovereignty of the People 4. Michael Ayers - Locke's Account of Abstract Ideas 5.. Shigeyuki Aoki - A Note on Locke and Descartes on the Nature of Matter 6. Luc Foisneau - Personal Identity and Natural Person: Locke between Hobbes and Leibniz 7. Martha Bolton - Leibniz and Locke on Substance, Powers, and Potentialities 8. Mark Goldie - John Locke, Thomas Beconsall, and filial rebellion 9. Sarah Hutton - Some Thoughts Concerning Ralph Cudworth 10. Luisa Simonutti - The 'Dry club' and the virtual 'salon littéraire' at Oates. The cradle of Locke's final religious writings 11. Paul Schuurman - Vision in God and Thinking Matter. Locke's epistemological agnosticism used against Malebranche and Stillingfleet. 12. John Milton - Pierre Coste, John Locke and the third Earl of Shaftesbury 13. Ian Harris - Locke and Bayle 14. Sylvana Tomaselli - Locke and Rousseau 15. Yasuhiko Tomida -Locke's 'Things Themselves' and Kant's 'Dinge an Sich'

John Cottingham In the anglophone philosophical world, there has, for some time, been a curious relationship between the history of philosophy and contemporary philosophical - quiry. Many philosophers working today virtually ignore the history of their s- ject, apparently regarding it as an antiquarian pursuit with little relevance to their "cutting-edge" research. Conversely, there are historians of philosophy who seldom if ever concern themselves with the intricate technical debates that ll the journals devoted to modern analytic philosophy. Both sides are surely the poorer for this strange bifurcation. For philosophy, like all parts of our intellectual culture, did not come into existence out of nowhere, but was shaped and nurtured by a long tradition; in uncovering the roots of that tradition we begin see current philoso- ical problems in a broader context and thereby enrich our understanding of their signi cance. This is surely part of the justi cation for the practice, in almost every university, of including elements from the history of philosophy as a basic part of the undergraduate curriculum. But understanding is enriched by looking forwards as well as backwards, which is why a good historian of philosophy will not just be c- cerned with uncovering ancient ideas, but will be constantly alert to how those ideas pre gure and anticipate later developments.