Introduction / Richard Scholar and Alexis Tadié -- Poetic fiction and natural philosophy in humanist Italy: Fracostoro's use of myth in Syphilis / Isabelle Pantin -- Si faut-il voir si cette belle philosophie: the language of fiction in Montaigne, Corneille, and Pascal / Wes Williams -- Fictions across disciplines in seventeenth-century France / Isabelle Moreau -- Elements of fiction in Hobbes's system of philosophy / Luc Foisneau -- The making of the modern philosopher: fictions of philosophical identity in Locke and Hume / Robert Mankin -- Philosophy, ethics, and the work of fiction: Diderot's answer to Molyneux's question / Kate E. Tunstall -- The Terror as a legal fiction / Anne Simonin
