Angela Michelle Coventry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University. Her major area of research includes Early Modern Philosophy (17th and 18th Century Continental and British). She is the author of two books and has published several articles and book reviews in journals. Kenneth R. Merrill is professor of philosophy emeritus and former department chair at the University of Oklahoma, where he taught for 47 years. His research interests are mainly in 17th and 18th-century British and continental philosophy and American philosophy. He has published essays and book chapters in those areas and has presented papers in a variety of scholarly venues.