Descartes on human nature and the human good / Lisa Shapiro -- Spinoza on philosophy and religion : the Averroistic sources / Carlos Fraenkel -- Music, mechanics and "mixed mathematics" / Alison Laywine -- Ethics in Descartes and seventeenth century Cartesian textbooks / Roger Ariew -- Louis Bourguet and the model of organic bodies / François Duchesneau -- "Nemo non videt" : intuitive knowledge and the question of Spinoza's elitism / Hasana Sharp -- Rationalism versus subjective experience : the problem of the two minds in Spinoza / Syliane Malinowski-Charles -- Spinoza's anti-humanism : an outline / Yitzhak Y. Melamed -- Spinoza, Leibniz, and the gods of philosophy / Steven Nadler -- Leibniz on infinite beings and non-beings / Ohad Nachtomy -- Grounding the principle of sufficient reason : Leibnizian rationalism and the Humean challenge / Brandon C. Look.