Edited by Ohad Nachtomy, Associate Professor, Fordham University and Bar-Ilan University, and Justin E. H. Smith, University Professor, Universite Paris Diderot - Paris VII

Ohad Nachtomy is Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University and at Fordham University. He is the author of Possibility, Agency, and Individuality in Leibniz's Metaphysics (2007); "Leibniz on Nested Individuals"(BJHP 2007); "Leibniz and the Logic of Life"(Studia Leibnitiana 2010); "Leibniz on Artificial and Natural Machines" in Machines of Nature and Corporeal Substances in Leibniz (co-edited with Justin Smith) (2010); and "A Tale Of Two Thinkers, One Meeting, and Three Degrees Of Infinity: Leibniz And Spinoza in 1675-78" (BJHP 2011). Justin E. H. Smith is university professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris 7. He is the author of Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (2011) and of the forthcoming Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Early Modern Philosophy and the Concept of Race. He has also recently edited and translated, with François Duchesneau, Georg Ernst Stahl's Negotium otiosum (forthcoming).

Catherine Abou-Nemeh

Raphaële Andrault

Andreas Blank

Karen Detlefsen

Peter M. Distelzweig

François Duchesneau

Ohad Nachtomy

Brian W. Ogilvie

Anne-Lise Rey

Lea F. Schweitz

Thomas Teufel

Charles T. Wolfe

"These valuable essays will enrich specialists' understanding of the 17th-century dynamics that produced what has become biology." - Choice

"This anthology will be welcomed by philosophers and historians of science." - Jeremy Kirby, The Quarterly Review of Biology

"It merits the attention of anyone interested in the philosophical aspects of early modern science." - Antonio Clerocuzio, British Journal for the History of Science