Desmond M. Clarke is Professor (emeritus) of Philosophy at University College Cork, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is general editor (with Karl Ameriks) of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy; his recent monographs include Descartes's Theory of Mind (OUP, 2003) and Descartes: A Biography (CUP, 2006). His translations include a two-volume edition of Descartes for Penguin.Catherine Wilson is Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (OUP, 2008), Descartes's Meditations: An Introduction (CUP, 2003), and the recently reprinted The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope (Princeton 2009). She was editor of History of Philosophy Quarterly from 1998 to 2003.

a wonderful guide to the general contours of philosophical thinking in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, valuable for advanced undergraduates through to seasoned scholars of early modern thought ... There are many excellent essays that will bear intellectual fruit through multiple readings.

• PART I: METAPHYSICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY; PART II: THE MIND, THE PASSIONS, AND AESTHETICS; PART III: EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, MATHEMATICS AND LANGUAGE; PART IV: ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY; PART V: RELIGION

Desmond M. Clarke is Professor (emeritus) of Philosophy at University College Cork, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is general editor (with Karl Ameriks) of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy; his recent monographs include Descartes's Theory of Mind (OUP, 2003) and Descartes: A Biography (CUP, 2006). His translations include a two-volume edition of Descartes for Penguin.Catherine Wilson is Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (OUP, 2008), Descartes's Meditations: An Introduction (CUP, 2003), and the recently reprinted The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope (Princeton 2009). She was editor of History of Philosophy Quarterly from 1998 to 2003.

a wonderful guide to the general contours of philosophical thinking in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, valuable for advanced undergraduates through to seasoned scholars of early modern thought ... There are many excellent essays that will bear intellectual fruit through multiple readings.

• PART I: METAPHYSICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY; PART II: THE MIND, THE PASSIONS, AND AESTHETICS; PART III: EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, MATHEMATICS AND LANGUAGE; PART IV: ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY; PART V: RELIGION

Desmond M. Clarke is Professor (emeritus) of Philosophy at University College Cork, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is general editor (with Karl Ameriks) of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy; his recent monographs include Descartes's Theory of Mind (OUP, 2003) and Descartes: A Biography (CUP, 2006). His translations include a two-volume edition of Descartes for Penguin.Catherine Wilson is Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (OUP, 2008), Descartes's Meditations: An Introduction (CUP, 2003), and the recently reprinted The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope (Princeton 2009). She was editor of History of Philosophy Quarterly from 1998 to 2003.

a wonderful guide to the general contours of philosophical thinking in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, valuable for advanced undergraduates through to seasoned scholars of early modern thought ... There are many excellent essays that will bear intellectual fruit through multiple readings.

• PART I: METAPHYSICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY; PART II: THE MIND, THE PASSIONS, AND AESTHETICS; PART III: EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, MATHEMATICS AND LANGUAGE; PART IV: ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY; PART V: RELIGION