Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Anglie

This chapter discusses Baxter’s theory of natural law and his polemics against Thomas Hobbes and Benedict de Spinoza on ethical matters. Baxter’s natural law theory drew on Francis...

This chapter argues that the picture theory of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus was anticipated by a proto version of the theory entertained and criticized by Russell in ‘On the Nature of ...

The biblical scholarship Spinoza deploys in his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670) stands in a long tradition of humanist philology. The radical thrust of the book lay not so mu...

Chapter 2 surveys early responses to Spinoza’s Tractatus theologico-politicus in the Dutch Republic. These include well-known published refutations, such as those by Regnerus van M...

This chapter provides a novel interpretation of Ramsey’s ‘Universals’ (1925a). Ramsey famously concluded that the particular–universal distinction cannot be a piece of a priori kno...

The publication between 1887 and 1897 of these letters, which form part of the archive of the Dutch Church at Austin Friars in London, was a remarkable feat of bibliography. The ar...

The publication between 1887 and 1897 of these letters, which form part of the archive of the Dutch Church at Austin Friars in London, was a remarkable feat of bibliography. The ar...