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The attempt to thank everyone who ought to be thanked for the appearance of this book would be a fool’s errand. The names I give here are only examples.
Much of the research was conducted when I was a PhD student at Birkbeck College, London. I cannot imagine a better environment in which to have done my doctoral work; I hope it remains the place I remember, and for a long time. To everyone who helped me then, thank you again. Those whom I thanked in my dissertation, I now thank again. My supervisor Susan James is a scholar whose work first inspired me to study Spinoza and continues to inspire me today. She continues unfailingly to support and advise me. This book owes more to her than I can convey.
After Birkbeck I continued working with the support of a Jacobsen Research Fellowship at the Institute of Philosophy and King’s College, London. These are both great institutions, in their rather different ways. I thank Barry Smith, Shahrar Ali, Ophelia Deroy, Mauricio Suárez, Maria-Rosa Antognazza, and David Papineau for their support during this period. Sarah Tropper, Daniel Andersson, and Christoph Schuringa all made insightful comments on work that would eventually end up in this book, as did many others; the hopelessness of trying to list everybody deserving keeps more names from appearing here. Established scholars including Theo Verbeek, Eric Schliesser, Sarah Patterson, Catherine Wilson, and Vlad Alexandrescu have been incredibly unselfish with their valuable time, reading my work and giving detailed advice. It will be obvious to the reader of what follows how much I have taken from their work and that of many others.
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