Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. An Age of Transformation

2. Philosophy in the Universities

3. Cross-Currents, Conduits, and Conversations

4. Aristotelianism and its Enemies

5. Bacon and Herbert of Cherbury

6. Thomas Hobbes

7. A Cambridge Enlightenment: The Cambridge Platonists and Richard Cumberland

8. From Philosophy to Science: Natural Philosophy of Boyle, Newton, and Others

9. John Locke

10. Freethinkers, Idealists, and Women Philosophers: Philosophy from 1690 to 1710—and after

Biographical Appendix

Bibliography of Books and Articles Consulted

Name Index

Subject Index