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Informationen zum Autor Peter A. French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. Formerly, he held the Cole Chair In Ethics at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and served as Exxon Distinguished Research Professor in the Center for the Study of Values at the University of Delaware. He is the author of seventeen books and has published dozens of articles in the major philosophical and legal journals and reviews, many of which have been anthologized. Howard K. Wettstein is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Minnesota-Morris, and has served as visiting professor at the University of Iowa and Stanford University. Wettstein has published articles on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of religion. Klappentext "Early Modern Philosophy Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Paul Hoffman is an international collection of essays from both well-established and younger scholars. In keeping with the example of Hoffman's own work, the essays are written in the spirit of promoting serious philosophical engagement with the historical figures they discuss. Among the philosophers whose views are explored in the collection are Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Berkeley, and Kant."--Publisher's website. Inhaltsverzeichnis Spinoza on the human mind / Lilli Alanen The duck's leg : Descartes's intermediate distinction / Deborah J. Brown Natural unity and human exceptionalism / Manual "Mandel" Cabrera Jr Conatus and perfection in Spinoza / John Carriero Taking the fourth : steps toward a new (old) reading of Descartes / Michael Della Rocca Descartes and the Aristotelian framwork of sensory perception / Joseph W. Hwang Descartes in Kant's transcendental deduction / Olli Koistinen Virtue as power / Michael LeBuffe The heyday of teleology and early modern philosophy / Jeffrey K. McDonough Sensory doubts and the directness of perception in the meditations / Lex Newman Cartesian unions / C.G. Normore Real distinction, separability, and corporeal substance in Descartes / Marleen Rozemond Descartes's pineal gland reconsidered / Lisa Shapiro Continuous creation / Kenneth P. Winkler Spinoza on the very nature of existence / Andrew Youpa ...
