Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Vlad Alexandrescu is Professor of French Studies and Director of the Research Center, Foundations of Modern Europe, at the University of Bucharest. He is also the Romanian Ambassador to the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. Alexandrescu is the author of works on early modern philosophy, including Le paradoxe chez Blaise Pascal (1996), and coeditor of Autour de Descartes (1998) and Esprits modernes. Études sur les modèles de pensée alternatifs aux XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles (2005).
Roger Ariew is Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida. His principal interests concern the relations between philosophy, science, and society in the early modern period. Ariew is the author of Descartes and the Last Scholastics, coauthor of Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy, and editor and translator of such works as Descartes, Philosophical Essays, and Pascal, Pensées. He is currently working on the reception of Descartes’ philosophy and science in late seventeenth-century France.
Vincent Carraud is Professor of philosophy at the Université de Caen and Director of the research group Identité et subjectivité. He specializes in Descartes and the Cartesians and is the author of Pascal et la Philosophie. His most recent work bears on the concept of cause and sufficient reason: Causa sive ratio. La raison de la cause, de Suarez à Leibniz.
Douglas M. Jesseph is Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University. He is the author of several books and numerous papers on early modern philosophy, methodology, and mathematics, including Berkeley’s [End Page 526] Philosophy of Mathematics and Squaring the Circle, The War between Hobbes and Wallis.
Eric P. Lewis is completing his Ph.D. in the graduate program in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His current research includes early modern matter theories and the reception of Cartesian metaphysics in seventeenth-century England. He has published on Charleton’s eclecticism and on early modern conceptions of body, matter, and space.
