Abstract
This book is a collection of eight substantial essays, the overall aim of which is to shed new light on the works of René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz, and Pierre Bayle. The essays are original, and not reprints of earlier publications, having come to the collection by way of two separate commissions, and represent some of the best early Modern scholarship done within the past decade. The contributors are Stephen Menn, Tad Schmaltz, Steven Nadler, Stuart Brown, Christia Mercer, Catherine Wilson, Thomas Lennon, and David Wooton.