The past two decades have hosted a proliferation of important, widely ramifying research in the intellectual history of the long eighteenth century. As a natural consequence of this development scholars working in pertinent fields have increasingly recognized and emphatically expressed a need for a forum focused especially on research into the various interrelated conceptual endeavors marking this period. Adequate interdisciplinary channels for publication of studies of the eighteenth century with primarily literary, artistic, social and cultural emphases are widely recognized to exist already; until now, however, there has been no organ concentrating on the study of conceptual efforts of the period that have proven so fecund and otherwise significant. This journal has been conceived to provide such a venue.

Thus Eighteenth-Century Thought has been founded in order to encourage and support inquiry into early modern thought by its annual publication of interdisciplinary research on the philosophy, natural philosophy, medicine, law, historiography, political theory, religion, economics and other emerging human sciences as conceived, practiced and variously related to one another from the second half of the seventeenth century to the first quarter of the nineteenth century. To this end, the journal will publish essays, substantive discussion notes, review essays and book reviews concentrating solely on this intellectual history. Eighteenth-Century Thought's principal object of fostering understanding of the thought of this period through a comprehensive appreciation of the efforts of its creators will be met by distribution of rigorous study of their texts and the contexts in which they were created. While figures and movements conventionally understood to have principal status will receive due attention, serious consideration will also be offered to less well known authors, movements, controversies and positions not simply in an effort to understand the principals' contexts, but equally importantly to comprehend the merits and limitations of such currently less known subjects

As Eighteenth-Century Thought is an interdisciplinary journal, it strongly encourages interdisciplinary methods and topics. Such an integrative approach will often elicit comprehensive, thoroughly documented, and occasionally longer than conventional essays.

Eighteenth-Century Thought is a refereed journal. Each submission is subject to blind review by two outside readers as well as by members of the editorial board. Eighteenth-Century Thought is published annually in May, and is abstracted and indexed in Book Review Index, International Political Science Abstracts, The Philosopher's Index, Religion Index One, Sociological Abstracts, Humanities Index, Social Sciences Index, and Index to Legal Periodicals.

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