Educated in Ireland, France, and the USA, Desmond M. Clarke taught in Ohio, Michigan, and Ireland, and was a Jean Monnet fellow at the European University Institute. He was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, and a CNRS visiting fellowship, having participated in joint research projects with the Ecoles normale supérieur, Lyon and Paris. Clarke published widely on Irish constitutional law and human rights law. His other publications with OUP include The Equality of the Sexes: Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century (2013).

All in all, Clarke has produced a comprehensive, tough-minded, and thought provoking account of a key period in philosophical history.

• 1: Philosophy in Context 2: Scepticism 3: Faith and Reason 4: Natural Philosophy 5: Theories of the Human Mind 6: Ethics: the Good Life and the Moral Law 7: Political Philosophy: The Source and Limits of State Authority 8: The Equality of the Sexes Afterword Appendix: Brief Biographies Bibliography Index

Educated in Ireland, France, and the USA, Desmond M. Clarke taught in Ohio, Michigan, and Ireland, and was a Jean Monnet fellow at the European University Institute. He was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, and a CNRS visiting fellowship, having participated in joint research projects with the Ecoles normale supérieur, Lyon and Paris. Clarke published widely on Irish constitutional law and human rights law. His other publications with OUP include The Equality of the Sexes: Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century (2013).

All in all, Clarke has produced a comprehensive, tough-minded, and thought provoking account of a key period in philosophical history.

• 1: Philosophy in Context 2: Scepticism 3: Faith and Reason 4: Natural Philosophy 5: Theories of the Human Mind 6: Ethics: the Good Life and the Moral Law 7: Political Philosophy: The Source and Limits of State Authority 8: The Equality of the Sexes Afterword Appendix: Brief Biographies Bibliography Index