Peter R. Anstey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He specializes in early modern philosophy with a particular focus on the philosophy of John Locke, experimental philosophy, and the philosophy of principles. He is the author of John Locke and Natural Philosophy (2011) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (2013).
This fascinating collection provides case studies allowing the reader to appreciate how many and how varied are the ways in which the concept of a principle has been deployed and to what effect in the early modern period. - Margaret Atherton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA