Life and Thought
Nicholas Jolley is a philosopher and scholar of the history of early modern philosophy, best known for his works on Locke, Leibniz, Descartes, and Malebranche. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine, and holds an important place in the interpretation of the relationship between metaphysics, theology, and the theory of mind in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophy.
Nicholas Jolley is a British philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and Clare College, Cambridge, and in the early years of his academic career also held a research fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge.
Jolley has taught at the University of California, San Diego, Syracuse University, and subsequently at the University of California, Irvine. At Irvine, he also served for a time as chair of the Department of Philosophy, and his research focuses primarily on the history of early modern philosophy.
His major works include "Leibniz and Locke," "The Light of the Soul: Theories of Ideas in Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes," "Locke: His Philosophical Thought," "Leibniz," "Causality and Mind," and "Locke's Touchy Subjects: Materialism and Immortality." In these works, Jolley addresses issues such as the theory of ideas, mind and body, materialism, the immortality of the soul, causality, and the relationship between philosophy and theology in the thought of early modern philosophers.
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