The occurrence of an entry on early modern philosophical systems in an encyclopaedia of Neo-Latin studies is fraught with complications, if only on account of the gradual disappearance during the early modern period of Latin as the main vehicle of philosophical communication. What is more, historians of philosophy find it difficult to agree on exactly which period should count as ‘early modern’, and finally, experts on the period involved have raised serious doubts concerning the suitability of the notion of a ‘system’ in the historiography of philosophy in the period under review.

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Erasmus School of Philosophy

van Bunge, W. (2014). Early Modern Philosophical Systems. In Philip Ford, Jan Bloemendal and Charles Fantazzi (eds.), Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World (Brill: Leiden-Boston, 2014), pp. 649-663. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/51039