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List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The persona ofthe natural philosopher Stephen Gaukroger; 2. The university philosopher inearly modern Germany Ian Hunter; 3. The persona of the philosopher and therhetorics of office in early modern England Conal Condren; 4. From Sir ThomasMore to Robert Burton: the laughing philosopher in the early modern periodCatherine Curtis; 5. 'Vaine philosophy': Thomas Hobbes and the philosophy ofthe Schools Richard Serjeantson; 6. The judicial persona in historicalcontext: the case of Matthew Hale David Saunders; 7. Persona and office:Althusius on the formation of magistrates and councillors Robert vonFriedeburg; 8. Descartes as sage: spiritual askesis in Cartesian philosophyJohn Cottingham; 9. The natural philosopher and the virtues Peter Harrison;10. Fictions of a feminine philosophical persona: Christine de Pizan,Margaret Cavendish, and philosophia lost Karen Green and Jacqueline Broad;11. John Locke and polite philosophy Richard Yeo.