Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IV

J.G.Cottingham is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. His
books include Rationalism (1984), Descartes (1986), The Rationalists (Opus
Books, 1988) and A Descartes Dictionary (1992). He is co-translator of The
Philosophical Writings of Descartes (3 vols, 1985, 1991), editor of The
Cambridge Companion to Descartes (1992) and editor of the journal Ratio.
T.Sorell is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is the author
of Hobbes (1988), Descartes (‘Past Masters’ series 1987) and Scientism
(1991) and is the editor of The Rise of Modern Philosophy
Hans W.Blom teaches in the Philosophy Department at the Erasmus
University, Rotterdam. He edited a book on the brothers de la Court, is the coauthor
of a bibliography of Dutch seventeenth-century political theory and is
the author of several articles on seventeenth-century political philosophy.
Daisie Radner is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York
at Buffalo; she is the author of Malebranche (1978).
Nicholas Jolley is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San
Diego. He is the author of Leibniz and Locke (1984) and The Light of the Soul:
Theories of Ideas in Leibniz, Malebranche and Descartes (1990). He is also
the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz (forthcoming).
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