New Essays on the Rationalists

AvRocco J Gennaro & Charles Huenemann,Rocco J. Gennaro

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

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Beskrivning

This volume, which grew out of a 1995 NEH seminar on the Rationalists, presents nineteen previously unpublished papers on the work of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. These three philosophers are the most important representatives of the 17th and 18th century movement known as rationalism, which can be characterized by the idea that knowledge can be acquired a priori, without sensory experience, from pure thought or reason. Particularly in epistemology and metaphysics, their work has remained at the centre of philosophical interest. The volume is thematically organized into three Parts: Matter and Substance, Freedom and Necessity, and Mind and Consciousness.

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Utgivningsdatum:1999-12-02
Mått:235 x 163 x 30 mm
Vikt:789 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Oxford University Press
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195124880

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The editors have put together a large number of essays covering a wide range of topics with a good balance among the three philosophers ... A second strength is originality ... A third strength is currency; the essays generally examine 'hot topics' ... The collection includes some of the most prominent players.

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Introduction Part I - Matter and Substance 1.: Jonathan Bennett, Syracuse University: Space and Subtle Matter in Descartes's Metaphysics 2.: Eric Palmer, Allegheny College, Pennsylvania: Descartes on Nothing in Particular 3.: Michael Della Rocca, Yale University: "If a Body Meets a Body": Descartes on Body-Body Causation 4.: Mathew Stuart, Bowdoin College, Maine: Descartes's Extended Substances 5.: Jan A. Cover, Purdue University: Spinoza's Extended Substance: Cartesian and Leibnizian Reflections 6.: Samuel Levey, Dartmouth College: Leibniz's Constructivism and Infinitely Folded Matter 7.: Susanna Goodin, University of Wyoming: Locke and Leibniz and the Debate over Species Part II - Freedom and Necessity 8.: Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University: Descartes on Spontaneity, Indifference, and Alternatives 9.: Eric Sotnak, University of Akron, Ohio: The Range of Leibnizian Compatibilism 10.: Charles Huenemann, Utah State University: The Necessity of Finite Modes and Geometrical Containment in Spinoza's Metaphysics 11.: Edwin Curley and Gregory Walski, both at University of Michigan: Spinoza's Necessitarianism Reconsidered Part III - Mind and Consciousness 12.: Stephen Voss, Bogazici University, Turkey: A Spectator at the Theater of the World 13.: Clarence Bonnen and Daniel Flage, both at James Madison University, Virginia: Distinctness 14.: Geoffrey Gorham, Cornell College, Iowa: Causation and Similarity in Descartes 15.: Don Garret, University of Utah: Teleology in Spinoza and Early Modern Rationalism 16.: Margaret D. Wilson, Princeton University: "For They Do Not Agree In Nature With Us": Spinoza on the Lower Animals 17.: Rocco J. Gennaro, Indiana State University: Leibniz on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness 18.: Catherine Wilson, University of Alberta, Canada: The Illusory Nature of Leibniz's System Bibliography Index