Matthew J. Kisner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Spinoza on Human Freedom: Reason, Autonomy and the Good Life (Cambridge, 2011) and the co-editor (with Andrew Youpa) of Essays on Spinoza's Ethical Theory (2014). Michael Silverthorne, formerly Professor in Classics at McGill University, Montreal, has translated a number of neo-Latin texts including works by Bacon, Pufendorf, Locke and Francis Hutcheson. He co-translated Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (Cambridge, 2007).