Notes on Contributors

Roger Ariew is professor and head of the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His current research involves the intellectual, social, and cultural context of seventeenth century philosophy. He is author of Descartes and the Last Scholastics (in press). He is also coeditor and co-translator, with Daniel Garber, of Leibniz: Philosophical Essays (1989), and with John Cottingham and Tom Sorell, of Descartes' Meditations: Background Source Materials, Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context (1998).

Richard Arthur is professor of philosophy at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. His current research interests include the history of philosophy and science, the philosophy of time and space, and cosmology. He is the author of the forthcoming Leibniz: The Labyrinth of the Continuum, Writings of 1672 to 1686. He is also currently at work on Matters of Moment: Studies on Time in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, a treatment of time in the mathematics, physics, and philosophy of Galileo, Torricelli, Descartes, Gassendi, Barrow, Newton, Huygens, and Leibniz.

François Duchesneau is professor of philosophy and vice-rector of planning at the University of Montreal. He is presently serving as president of the Canadian Philosophical Association. His research interests relate to the history and philosophy of science and to early modern philosophy. His recent published work includes La dynamique de Leibniz (1994), Philosophie de la biologie (1997), and Les modèles du vivant de Descartes à Leibniz (1998).

Daniel Garber is the Lawrence Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in Philosophy and the Committee on the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago. In addition to numerous articles, he is the co-translator (with Roger Ariew) of Leibniz: Philosophical Essays (1989), the author of Descartes' Metaphysical Physics (1992), the coeditor (with Michael Ayers) of the Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (1998). He is currently working on a large study of Aristotelianism and anti-Aristotelianism in early seventeenth century Paris. Connected with this project is a new edition with commentary of Jean-Baptiste Morin's seminal Astrologia Gallica (1661).

Douglas Jesseph is associate professor of philosophy at North Carolina State University. His current research interests are in the history and philosophy of mathematics. Among his publications are Berkeley's Philosophy of Mathematics (1993) and Squaring the Circle: The Mathematical War between Hobbes and Wallis (forthcoming). He is also currently editing Hobbes's mathematical works for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes.

Edith Sylla is professor of history and interim head of the Department of History at North Carolina State University. She is co-chair of the program committee for the 1999 History of Science Society annual meeting. Her research interests include medieval scholasticism (the Oxford Calculators and Parisian Aristotelian commentators), the early history of mathematical probability theory, and alternative perspectives on the Scientific Revolution. She has published other articles on Jacob Bernoulli.

Eric Watkins is currently assistant professor of philosophy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has written extensively on Kant's metaphysics and epistemology in the context of eighteenth century German philosophy. More recently, he has turned to Kant's philosophy of science. He is currently researching the relationship between metaphysics and physics in eighteenth century Germany, with an emphasis on Kant's account.

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