Corey W. Dyck is Professor of Philosophy at Western University. Among his most recent books are Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics (OUP, 2024), the collection Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany (OUP, 2020), and Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) (OUP, 2019). He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he was also an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.Frederick C. Beiser was born and raised in the USA. He studied in the UK at Oriel College and Wolfson College, Oxford, and then in Germany for many years, receiving stipends from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Humboldt Stiftung during that time. He has taught in many universities in the USA including Yale, Harvard, Penn, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Indiana. In 2015 President Joachim Gauck awarded him the Bundesverdienstkreuz (the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) for his work on German philosophy. Beiser was Professor of Philosphy at Syracuse University for 22 years until he retired in 2022.Brandon C. Look is a University Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. Educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his BA, MA and PhD, he has received grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Leibniz and the ''Vinculum Substantiale'', editor of the The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz and co-editor and co-translator (with Donald Rutherford) of The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence for the Yale Leibniz series. In addition, he has published numerous essays on the history of early modern philosophy.

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• Corey W. Dyck: Introduction Part I The Seventeenth-Century Context 1: Nabeel Hamid: Philosophy in Germany on the Eve of the Eighteenth Century Part II Themes (a) Logic and Method 2: J. Colin McQuillan: The Right Use of Reason: Logic in Eighteenth-Century Germany 3: Mirella Capozzi: Logical Calculi in Eighteenth-Century German Logic 4: Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet: Novel Arts of Philosophizing? Thomasius, Wolff, and the Philosophical Method of the Berlin Academy 5: Gabriele Gava: Crusius and Lambert on Identifying the Most Basic Content of Scientific Cognition (b) Metaphysics, Epistemology, Language, and Mind 6: Corey W. Dyck: Power, Harmony, and Freedom: Debating Causation in Eighteenth-Century Germany 7: Reed Winegar: Philosophical Conceptions of God in Eighteenth-Century Germany 8: Falk Wunderlich: Cognition, Knowledge, and Certainty: Fundamentals of Epistemology in Eighteenth-Century Germany 9: Brian A. Chance: Pure Understanding before Kant: Empiricism, Nativism, and Pre-Established Harmony 10: Michael N. Forster: German Philosophy of Language before Kant 11: Udo Thiel: Consciousness and Self-Consciousness from Wolff to Reinhold (c) Philosophy of Mathematics and Science 12: Emily Carson: Philosophy of Mathematics from Leibniz to Kant 13: Marius Stan: Rationalist Foundations and the Science of Motion 14: Justin Smith-Ruiu: Philosophy of the Living World 15: Jennifer Mensch: Anthropology and Race in the Eighteenth Century 16: John Zammito: The Emergence of Anthropological Discourse before the Rise of Kant's Critical Philosophy: Reimarus, Unzer, Herder, and Tetens on the Animal-Human Boundary (d) Practical Philosophy and Aesthetics 17: Michael Walschots: The Principle of Morality in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy 18: Reidar Maliks: Political Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany 19: Antonino Falduto: Education in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy: Theological Roots, Ethical Significance, and the Role of Enlightenment 20: Stefanie Buchenau: Aesthetics: The Emergence of a Discipline 21: Anne Pollok: The Theory of Mixed Sentiments: Why Art Cannot Just Be Beautiful Part III Intellectual Traditions, Debates, and Controversies (a) Intellectual Traditions 22: Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero: The Wolffian Philosophy and the Quest for Grounds 23: Courtney Fugate: The Thomasian-Pietistic Tradition 24: Paola Rumore: Philosophical Eclecticism in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy 25: Johan van der Zande: A Revision of Popular Philosophy 26: Paul Franks: Two Souls in One Breast: The Berlin Maskil, the Aufklärer, and the Tribulations of Translation 27: Frederick Beiser: Three Critics of the Enlightenment (b) Debates and Controversies 28: Simon Grote: Pietism and Wolffianism 29: Christian Leduc: Metaphysics, Controversies, and Prize Competitions at the Berlin Academy 30: Laura Anna Macor: The Vocation of the Human Being 31: Ursula Goldenbaum: Lessing's Fragmentenstreit as a Statement on the Jewish Question 32: Jonathan Israel: Spinoza and Spinozism in the German Enlightenment Part IV The Historiography of Philosophy 33: Leo Catana: Brucker and the Reception of Plato in the Eighteenth Century 34: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer: Rendered Irrelevant: On the Representation of Women Philosophers in Eighteenth-Century German Historiography of Philosophy

Corey W. Dyck is Professor of Philosophy at Western University. Among his most recent books are Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics (OUP, 2024), the collection Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany (OUP, 2020), and Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) (OUP, 2019). He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he was also an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.Frederick C. Beiser was born and raised in the USA. He studied in the UK at Oriel College and Wolfson College, Oxford, and then in Germany for many years, receiving stipends from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Humboldt Stiftung during that time. He has taught in many universities in the USA including Yale, Harvard, Penn, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Indiana. In 2015 President Joachim Gauck awarded him the Bundesverdienstkreuz (the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) for his work on German philosophy. Beiser was Professor of Philosphy at Syracuse University for 22 years until he retired in 2022.Brandon C. Look is a University Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. Educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his BA, MA and PhD, he has received grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Leibniz and the ''Vinculum Substantiale'', editor of the The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz and co-editor and co-translator (with Donald Rutherford) of The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence for the Yale Leibniz series. In addition, he has published numerous essays on the history of early modern philosophy.

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• Corey W. Dyck: Introduction Part I The Seventeenth-Century Context 1: Nabeel Hamid: Philosophy in Germany on the Eve of the Eighteenth Century Part II Themes (a) Logic and Method 2: J. Colin McQuillan: The Right Use of Reason: Logic in Eighteenth-Century Germany 3: Mirella Capozzi: Logical Calculi in Eighteenth-Century German Logic 4: Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet: Novel Arts of Philosophizing? Thomasius, Wolff, and the Philosophical Method of the Berlin Academy 5: Gabriele Gava: Crusius and Lambert on Identifying the Most Basic Content of Scientific Cognition (b) Metaphysics, Epistemology, Language, and Mind 6: Corey W. Dyck: Power, Harmony, and Freedom: Debating Causation in Eighteenth-Century Germany 7: Reed Winegar: Philosophical Conceptions of God in Eighteenth-Century Germany 8: Falk Wunderlich: Cognition, Knowledge, and Certainty: Fundamentals of Epistemology in Eighteenth-Century Germany 9: Brian A. Chance: Pure Understanding before Kant: Empiricism, Nativism, and Pre-Established Harmony 10: Michael N. Forster: German Philosophy of Language before Kant 11: Udo Thiel: Consciousness and Self-Consciousness from Wolff to Reinhold (c) Philosophy of Mathematics and Science 12: Emily Carson: Philosophy of Mathematics from Leibniz to Kant 13: Marius Stan: Rationalist Foundations and the Science of Motion 14: Justin Smith-Ruiu: Philosophy of the Living World 15: Jennifer Mensch: Anthropology and Race in the Eighteenth Century 16: John Zammito: The Emergence of Anthropological Discourse before the Rise of Kant's Critical Philosophy: Reimarus, Unzer, Herder, and Tetens on the Animal-Human Boundary (d) Practical Philosophy and Aesthetics 17: Michael Walschots: The Principle of Morality in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy 18: Reidar Maliks: Political Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany 19: Antonino Falduto: Education in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy: Theological Roots, Ethical Significance, and the Role of Enlightenment 20: Stefanie Buchenau: Aesthetics: The Emergence of a Discipline 21: Anne Pollok: The Theory of Mixed Sentiments: Why Art Cannot Just Be Beautiful Part III Intellectual Traditions, Debates, and Controversies (a) Intellectual Traditions 22: Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero: The Wolffian Philosophy and the Quest for Grounds 23: Courtney Fugate: The Thomasian-Pietistic Tradition 24: Paola Rumore: Philosophical Eclecticism in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy 25: Johan van der Zande: A Revision of Popular Philosophy 26: Paul Franks: Two Souls in One Breast: The Berlin Maskil, the Aufklärer, and the Tribulations of Translation 27: Frederick Beiser: Three Critics of the Enlightenment (b) Debates and Controversies 28: Simon Grote: Pietism and Wolffianism 29: Christian Leduc: Metaphysics, Controversies, and Prize Competitions at the Berlin Academy 30: Laura Anna Macor: The Vocation of the Human Being 31: Ursula Goldenbaum: Lessing's Fragmentenstreit as a Statement on the Jewish Question 32: Jonathan Israel: Spinoza and Spinozism in the German Enlightenment Part IV The Historiography of Philosophy 33: Leo Catana: Brucker and the Reception of Plato in the Eighteenth Century 34: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer: Rendered Irrelevant: On the Representation of Women Philosophers in Eighteenth-Century German Historiography of Philosophy

Corey W. Dyck is Professor of Philosophy at Western University. Among his most recent books are Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics (OUP, 2024), the collection Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany (OUP, 2020), and Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) (OUP, 2019). He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he was also an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.Frederick C. Beiser was born and raised in the USA. He studied in the UK at Oriel College and Wolfson College, Oxford, and then in Germany for many years, receiving stipends from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Humboldt Stiftung during that time. He has taught in many universities in the USA including Yale, Harvard, Penn, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Indiana. In 2015 President Joachim Gauck awarded him the Bundesverdienstkreuz (the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) for his work on German philosophy. Beiser was Professor of Philosphy at Syracuse University for 22 years until he retired in 2022.Brandon C. Look is a University Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. Educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his BA, MA and PhD, he has received grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Leibniz and the ''Vinculum Substantiale'', editor of the The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz and co-editor and co-translator (with Donald Rutherford) of The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence for the Yale Leibniz series. In addition, he has published numerous essays on the history of early modern philosophy.

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• Corey W. Dyck: Introduction Part I The Seventeenth-Century Context 1: Nabeel Hamid: Philosophy in Germany on the Eve of the Eighteenth Century Part II Themes (a) Logic and Method 2: J. Colin McQuillan: The Right Use of Reason: Logic in Eighteenth-Century Germany 3: Mirella Capozzi: Logical Calculi in Eighteenth-Century German Logic 4: Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet: Novel Arts of Philosophizing? Thomasius, Wolff, and the Philosophical Method of the Berlin Academy 5: Gabriele Gava: Crusius and Lambert on Identifying the Most Basic Content of Scientific Cognition (b) Metaphysics, Epistemology, Language, and Mind 6: Corey W. Dyck: Power, Harmony, and Freedom: Debating Causation in Eighteenth-Century Germany 7: Reed Winegar: Philosophical Conceptions of God in Eighteenth-Century Germany 8: Falk Wunderlich: Cognition, Knowledge, and Certainty: Fundamentals of Epistemology in Eighteenth-Century Germany 9: Brian A. Chance: Pure Understanding before Kant: Empiricism, Nativism, and Pre-Established Harmony 10: Michael N. Forster: German Philosophy of Language before Kant 11: Udo Thiel: Consciousness and Self-Consciousness from Wolff to Reinhold (c) Philosophy of Mathematics and Science 12: Emily Carson: Philosophy of Mathematics from Leibniz to Kant 13: Marius Stan: Rationalist Foundations and the Science of Motion 14: Justin Smith-Ruiu: Philosophy of the Living World 15: Jennifer Mensch: Anthropology and Race in the Eighteenth Century 16: John Zammito: The Emergence of Anthropological Discourse before the Rise of Kant's Critical Philosophy: Reimarus, Unzer, Herder, and Tetens on the Animal-Human Boundary (d) Practical Philosophy and Aesthetics 17: Michael Walschots: The Principle of Morality in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy 18: Reidar Maliks: Political Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany 19: Antonino Falduto: Education in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy: Theological Roots, Ethical Significance, and the Role of Enlightenment 20: Stefanie Buchenau: Aesthetics: The Emergence of a Discipline 21: Anne Pollok: The Theory of Mixed Sentiments: Why Art Cannot Just Be Beautiful Part III Intellectual Traditions, Debates, and Controversies (a) Intellectual Traditions 22: Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero: The Wolffian Philosophy and the Quest for Grounds 23: Courtney Fugate: The Thomasian-Pietistic Tradition 24: Paola Rumore: Philosophical Eclecticism in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy 25: Johan van der Zande: A Revision of Popular Philosophy 26: Paul Franks: Two Souls in One Breast: The Berlin Maskil, the Aufklärer, and the Tribulations of Translation 27: Frederick Beiser: Three Critics of the Enlightenment (b) Debates and Controversies 28: Simon Grote: Pietism and Wolffianism 29: Christian Leduc: Metaphysics, Controversies, and Prize Competitions at the Berlin Academy 30: Laura Anna Macor: The Vocation of the Human Being 31: Ursula Goldenbaum: Lessing's Fragmentenstreit as a Statement on the Jewish Question 32: Jonathan Israel: Spinoza and Spinozism in the German Enlightenment Part IV The Historiography of Philosophy 33: Leo Catana: Brucker and the Reception of Plato in the Eighteenth Century 34: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer: Rendered Irrelevant: On the Representation of Women Philosophers in Eighteenth-Century German Historiography of Philosophy