Philosophy and Its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy

This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds. The distinguished contributors offer very different, competing approaches to the history of philosophy.

Mogens Lærke is Senior Research Fellow at the CNRS (UMR 5037, ENS de Lyon) and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.

Justin E. H. Smith is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VII -- Denis Diderot.

Eric Schliesser is Bijzonder Onderzoeks Fond Research Professor and Associated Professor of philosophy and moral science at Ghent University.