Alberto Vanzo is an independent scholar based in the United Kingdom. He has been a Marie Curie fellow at the universities of Birmingham and Warwick. His research in early modern philosophy ranges from Kant to experimental philosophy.Peter Anstey FAHA is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. He specializes in early modern philosophy with a focus on John Locke, Robert Boyle and the French Philosophes. He is the author of John Locke and Natural Philosophy (2011) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (2013).

• IntroductionAlberto Vanzo and Peter R. Anstey1. Francis Bacon on Sophists, Poets and other Forms of Self-Deceit (Or, What can the Experimental Philosopher Learn from a Theoretically Informed History of Philosophy?)Dana Jalobeanu2. Robert Boyle and the Intelligibility of the Corpuscular PhilosophyPeter R. Anstey3. Cavendish and Boyle on Colour and Experimental PhilosophyKeith Allen4. Appeals to Experience in Hobbes’ Science of PoliticsTom Sorell5. Locke and the Experimental Philosophy of the Human MindPhilippe Hamou6. Newton’s Scaffolding: The Instrumental Roles of his Optical HypothesesKirsten Walsh7. What (Else) was Behind the Newtonian Rejection of ‘Hypotheses’?Catherine Wilson8. From Experimental Natural Philosophy to Natural Religion: Action and Contemplation in the Early Royal SocietyElliot Rossiter9. Experimental Philosophy and Religion in Seventeenth-Century ItalyAlberto Vanzo10. Early Modern Experimental Philosophy: A Non-Anglocentric OverviewDmitri Levitin

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