Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Volume XI

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.

List of contents

• 1: Mattia Mantovani: The Institution of Nature: Descartes on Human and Animal Perception


• 2: Nabeel Hamid: Substance, Causation, and the Mind-Body Problem in Johann Clauberg


• 3: Sandrine Roux: La Forge's Partial Occasionalism: Why God Does Not Do Everything


• 4: Colin Chamberlain: What Is It Like to Be a Material Thing: Henry More and Margaret Cavendish on the Unity of the Mind


• 5: Hasana Sharp: Spinoza on the Fear of Solitude


• 6: Matthew A. Leisinger: Cudworthian Consciousness


• 7: Kenneth L. Pearce: Astell and Masham on Epistemic Authority and Women's Individual Judgment in Religion

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Donald (Professor of Philosophy Rutherford
• Assisted by: Donald Rutherford (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2022
• EAN: 9780192884749
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288474-9
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought