Rationalists - Critical Essays on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz

Informationen zum Autor Derk Pereboom is professor of philosophy at the University of Vermont. Klappentext This book brings together thirteen articles on the most discussed thinkers in the rationalist movement: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Malebranche. These articles address the topics in metaphysics and epistemology that figure most prominently in contemporary work on these philosophers. The articles have all been produced since 1980, and their authors are among the most respected in the field. Zusammenfassung This text brings together articles on the most discussed thinkers in the rationalist movement: Descartes! Spinoza! Leibniz and Malebranche. These articles address the topics in metaphysics and epistemology that figure most prominently in contemporary work on these philosophers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 I DESCARTES Chapter 4 1. The Method of Doubt Chapter 5 2. Descartes' Case for Dualism Chapter 6 3. The Unity of Descartes' Man Chapter 7 4. How God Causes Motion: Descartes, Divine Sustenance, and Occasionalism Part 8 II SPINOZA Chapter 9 5. Spinoza's Necessitarianism Chapter 10 6. On the Relationship Between Mode and Substance in Spinoza's Metaphysics Chapter 11 7. Spinoza's Argument for the Identity Theory Chapter 12 8. Spinoza's Causal Axiom (Ethics I, Axiom 4) Part 13 III LEIBNIZ Chapter 14 9. Phenomenalism and Corporeal Substance in Leibniz Chapter 15 10. Leibniz and Spinoza on Substance and Mode Chapter 16 11. Natures, Laws, and Miracles: The Roots of Leibniz's Critique of Occasionalism Chapter 17 12. Leibniz's Theory of Relations Part 18 IV MALEBRANCHE Chapter 19 13. Occasionalism and General Will in Malebranche Chapter 20 Bibliography Chapter 21 Authors

Product details

• Authors: Derk Pereboom
• Assisted by: Derk Pereboom (Editor), Dirk Pereboom (Editor), Pereboom Derk (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.1999
• EAN: 9780847689118
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8911-8
• No. of pages: 388
• Series: Critical Essays on the Classics Series; Critical Essays on the Classic; Critical Essays on the Classics Series; Critical Essays on the Classic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge