Brandon C. Look is University Research Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, USA. His research focuses on the history of early modern philosophy, especially on the thought of Spinoza, Leibniz, and Kant. He also works on issues in contemporary metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and the history and philosophy of science. He is theco-editor and -translator (with Donald Rutherford) of The Leibniz-Des BossesCorrespondence (Yale University Press, 2007) and the author of Leibnizand the 'Vinculum Substantiale' (Steiner, 1999).