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This book is an intellectually challenging exploration of the philosophical milieu that was the Enlightenment, which continues to inform and stimulate our cosmic explorations today. * Dr Clifford Cunningham, Ethics * This is an excellent book for specialists. Essential. Enterprising undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty. * Choice *

This book is an intellectually challenging exploration of the philosophical milieu that was the Enlightenment, which continues to inform and stimulate our cosmic explorations today. * Dr Clifford Cunningham, Ethics *

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Catherine Wilson earned her degrees at Yale, Oxford, and Princeton. She was Professor of Philosophy at the Universities of Oregon, Alberta, and British Columbia, specializing in the history and philosophy of science and empirical approaches to moral theory, including studies of the history of atomism and mechanism and evolutionary theory. She was appointed Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen in 2009 and later taught at the University of York. Since 2014 she has been a Visiting Professor and Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her most recent academic book was Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (Oxford, 2008). She is curently based in Berlin.

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