Jean-Paul De Lucca is associate professor of Philosophy at the University of Malta, where he previously served as the founding director of the Centre for the Liberal Arts and Sciences and as head of the Department of Philosophy. His areas of expertise include early modern philosophy and intellectual history, philosophy of law, and political philosophy. A former research scholar at Roma Tre University and Frances Yates Fellow in Intellectual and Cultural History at the Warburg Institute (University of London), he will later this year join the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven University as an invited visiting fellow.