Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophyis an annual series, presenting 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. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought. The articles inOSEMPwill 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.
Note from the Editors,Daniel Garber and Steven Nadler Abbreviations 1. Divisibility and Cartesian Extension,Kurt Smith and Alan Nelson 2. A New Challenge to the Necessitarian Reading of Spinoza,Christopher Martin 3. Spinoza's Theory of the Emotions and its Relation to Therapy,Herman De Dijn 4. Reconsidering Spinoza's Free Man: The Model of Human Nature,Matthew Kisner 5. Pure Intellect, Brain Traces, and Language: Leibniz and the Foucher-Malebranche Debate,Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero 6. iDans les corps il n'y a point de figure parfaite: Leibniz on Time, Change and Corporeal Substance,Samuel Levey 7. Leibniz on the iImago Dei,T. Allan Hillman 8. A Mystery at the Heart of Berkeley's Metaphysics,John Russell Roberts 9. Hume's Vicious Regress,Michael Jacovides Index of Names Notes to Contributors
Daniel Garberis Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University
Steven Nadleris Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.