Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume VIII

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents 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.

List of contents

• 1: Marie Jayasekera: Imitation and 'Infinite' Will: Descartes on the Imago Dei


• 2: Matthew J. Kisner: Descartes on the Ethical Reliability of the Passions: A Morean Reading


• 3: Thomas Holden: Hobbes on the Authority of Scripture


• 4: Keith Green: Spinoza on Turning the Other Cheek


• 5: Matthew Stuart: Locke's Succeeding Ideas


• 6: Ohad Nachtomy: On Living Mirrors and Mites: Leibniz's Encounter with Pascal on Infinity and Living Things Circa 1696


• 7: Julia Jorati: Leibniz's Ontology of Force


• 8: David Forman: Leibniz on Human Finitude, Progress, and Eternal Recurrence: The Argument of the 'Apokatastasis' Essay Drafts and Related Texts


• 9: Gabriele Gava: Kant, Wolf, and the Method of Philosophy

About the author

Daniel Garber is Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University.

Donald Rutherford is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego.

Summary

Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy presents 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.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Garber, Daniel (Professor of Philosophy Garber
• Assisted by: Daniel Garber (Editor), Daniel (Professor of Philosophy Garber (Editor), Garber Daniel (Editor), Donald Rutherford (Editor), Donald (Professor of Philosophy Rutherford (Editor), Rutherford Donald (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780198829294
• ISBN: 978-0-19-882929-4
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: 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 / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought