Contents: The philosophy of the Italian Renaissance/ Jill Kraye - Renaissance philosophy outside Italy/ Stuart Brown - Science and mathematics from the renaissance to descartes/ George Molland - Francis bacon and man's two - faced kingdom/ Antonio Perez - Ramos - Descartes, methodology/ Stephen Gaukroger - Descartes, metaphysics and philosophy of mind/ John Cottingham - seventeenth century materialism/ R. Sorell - Spinota metaphysics and knowledge/ G. H. R. Parkinson - the moral and political philosophy of spinoza/ Hans W. Blom - Occasionalism/ Daisie Radner- Leibniz/ Nicholas Jolley