The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century

Corey W. Dyck is Professor of Philosophy at Western University. Among his most recent books are Wolff and the First Fifty Years of German Metaphysics (OUP, 2024), the collection Women and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Germany (OUP, 2020), and Early Modern German Philosophy (1690-1750) (OUP, 2019). He has held visiting positions at the University of Oxford, the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, where he was also an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow.Frederick C. Beiser was born and raised in the USA. He studied in the UK at Oriel College and Wolfson College, Oxford, and then in Germany for many years, receiving stipends from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Humboldt Stiftung during that time. He has taught in many universities in the USA including Yale, Harvard, Penn, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Indiana. In 2015 President Joachim Gauck awarded him the Bundesverdienstkreuz (the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany) for his work on German philosophy. Beiser was Professor of Philosphy at Syracuse University for 22 years until he retired in 2022.Brandon C. Look is a University Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. Educated at the University of Chicago, where he received his BA, MA and PhD, he has received grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Leibniz and the ''Vinculum Substantiale'', editor of the The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz and co-editor and co-translator (with Donald Rutherford) of The Leibniz-Des Bosses Correspondence for the Yale Leibniz series. In addition, he has published numerous essays on the history of early modern philosophy.