Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Garber is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.Donald Rutherford is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. Klappentext Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. Zusammenfassung Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents a selection of the best current work in the history of early modern philosophy. It focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries--the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Vlad Alexandrescu: What Someone May Have Whispered in Elisabeth's Ear 2: John Russell Roberts: Whichcote and the Cambridge Platonists on Human Nature: An Interpretation and Defense 3: Yitzhak Y. Melamed: Spinoza's Deification of Existence 4: Mogens Lærke: Leibniz on Spinoza's Political Philosophy 5: Stephen Puryear: Motion in Leibniz's Middle Years: A Compatibilist Approach 6: Massimo Mugnai: Leibniz's Ontology of Relations: A Last Word? 7: Shane Duarte: Leibniz and Monadic Domination 8: Stewart Duncan: Toland, Leibniz, and Active Matter 9: J. E. McGuire and Edward Slowik: Newton's Ontology of Omnipresence and Infinite Space 10: Louis E. Loeb: Epistemological Commitment in Hume's Treatise 11: Tad M. Schmalz: Review Essay: Descartes on Forms and Mechanisms, by Helen Hattab, and Descartes's Changing Mind, by Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire Index of Names Notes to Contributors

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• Authors: Daniel (EDT) Garber
• Assisted by: Daniel Garber (Editor), Garber Daniel (Editor), Donald Rutherford (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2012
• EAN: 9780199659593
• ISBN: 978-0-19-965959-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy; Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy; Oxford Studies in Early Modern
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / Social History, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought