Claude Buffier

Anik Waldow is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and specializes in early modern philosophy, with a focus on Hume, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Herder and Condillac. She has published articles on the moral and cognitive function of sympathy, early modern theories of personal identity and the role of affect in the formation of the self, skepticism and associationist theories of thought and language. She is the author of Hume and the Problem of Other Minds (2009) and Experience Embodied: Early Modern Accounts of the Human place in Nature (2020) and has edited several volumes of collected essays, among them Sensibility in the Early Modern Era: From Living Machines to Affective Morality (2016) and Herder: Philosophy and Anthropology (with DeSouza, 2017).

Dario Perinetti is a Professor of Philosophy at University of Quebec at Montreal. His research focuses on Hume, the history of early modern epistemology and ethics and on the importance of history for our

thinking about normativity. His published work has appeared in the Cambridge History of Eighteenth Century Philosophy (2002), the Oxford Handbook of British Moral Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century (2013) and The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy (2014). He is the co-editor of The Rationalists: Between Tradition and Revolution (with Carlos Fraenkel and Justin Smith, 2010) and La Phenomenologie de l'esprit de Hegel: lectures contemporaines (with Marie-Andree Ricard, 2009). His article "Hume at La Fleche: Skepticism and the French Connection" (2018) was awarded the best article prize by the Journal of the History of Philosophy.

Sandrine Roux is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Her research focuses on early modern philosophy, especially Descartes and Cartesianism, the mind-body problem, and the works of proto-feminist philosopher Gabrielle Suchon. She is the author of L'Empreinte cartesienne:

L'interaction psychophysique, debats classiques et contemporains (2018) and the editor of Le corps et l'esprit: Problemes cartesiens, problemes contemporains (2015). Her publications include several articles and book chapters on Descartes, La Forge, Cordemoy, Malebranche, and on the receptions and uses of Descartes's theory of mind in contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science.