Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy

Klappentext Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 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. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework! provided they are important in illuminating early modern thought. Zusammenfassung 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. This work is of interest to specialists within the discipline, philosophers and intellectual historians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note from the Editors 1: Tad Schmaltz: Deflating Descartes' Causal Axiom 2: Lawrence Nolan and John Whipple: The Dustbin Theory of Mind: A Cartesian Legacy? 3: C. P. Ragland: Is Descartes a Libertarian? 4: Richard Lee: The Scholastic Resources for Descartes' Concept of God as Causa Sui 5: Doug Jesseph: Hobbesian Mechanics 6: Dan Kaufman: Locks, Schlocks, and Poisoned Peas: Boyle on Actual and Dispositive Qualities 7: Karen Detlefsen: Atomism, Monism, and Causation in the Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish 8: Roger Ariew: Descartes, the First Cartesians, and Logic 9: Eric Watkins: On the Necessity and Nature of Simples: Leibniz, Wolff, Baumgarten, and the Pre-Critical Kant 10: Dennis Des Chene: Review Essay: Descartes' Theory of Mind, by Desmond Clarke

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• Authors: Daniel (EDT)/ Nadler Garber
• Assisted by: Daniel Garber (Editor), Daniel (Princeton University) Garber (Editor), Steven Nadler (Editor), Steven (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Nadler (Editor), Steven M Nadler (Editor), Steven M. Nadler (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2006
• EAN: 9780199203932
• ISBN: 978-0-19-920393-2
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy; Oxford Studies in Early Modern; Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day