Early Modern Philosophy Reconsidered, Volume XXXV

Peter A. French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. Formerly, he held the Cole Chair In Ethics at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and served as Exxon Distinguished Research Professor in the Center for the Study of Values at the University of Delaware. He is the author of seventeen books and has published dozens of articles in the major philosophical and legal journals and reviews, many of which have been anthologized.Howard K. Wettstein is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Minnesota-Morris, and has served as visiting professor at the University of Iowa and Stanford University. Wettstein has published articles on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of religion.

• Spinoza on the human mind / Lilli Alanen The duck's leg : Descartes's intermediate distinction / Deborah J. BrownNatural unity and human exceptionalism / Manual "Mandel" Cabrera JrConatus and perfection in Spinoza / John CarrieroTaking the fourth : steps toward a new (old) reading of Descartes / Michael Della RoccaDescartes and the Aristotelian framwork of sensory perception / Joseph W. HwangDescartes in Kant's transcendental deduction / Olli KoistinenVirtue as power / Michael LeBuffeThe heyday of teleology and early modern philosophy / Jeffrey K. McDonoughSensory doubts and the directness of perception in the meditations / Lex NewmanCartesian unions / C.G. NormoreReal distinction, separability, and corporeal substance in Descartes / Marleen RozemondDescartes's pineal gland reconsidered / Lisa ShapiroContinuous creation / Kenneth P. WinklerSpinoza on the very nature of existence / Andrew Youpa