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Author:   Desmond M. Clarke (University College Cork) ,  Catherine Wilson (University of Aberdeen)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.234kg
ISBN:  

9780199556137

ISBN 10:   019955613
Pages:   610
Publication Date:   27 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy 1: Peter R. Anstey: Essences and Kinds 2: Tad M. Schmaltz: From Causes to Laws 3: Emily Grosholz: Space and Time 4: Helen Hattab: The Mechanical Philosophy 5: Justin E. H. Smith: Machines, Souls, and Vital Principles Part II: The Mind, the Passions, and Aesthetics 6: R. W. Serjeantson: The Soul 7: Pauline Phemister: Ideas 8: Philippe Hamou: Qualities and Sensory Perception 9: Gabor Boros: The Passions 10: Alexander Rueger: Aesthetics Part III: Epistemology, Logic, Mathematics and Language 11: José R. Maia Neto: Sceptisism 12: Desmond M. Clarke: Hypotheses 13: Jaap Maat: Language and Semiotics 14: Mary Tiles: Form, Reason, and Method 15: Jean-François Gauvin: Instruments of Knowledge 16: Stephen Gaukroger: Picturability and Mathematical Ideals of Knowledge Part IV: Ethics and Political Philosophy 17: P. J. E. Kail: Virtue and Vice 18: Stephen Darwall: Egoism and Morality 19: Catherine Wilson: Realism and Relativism in Ethics 20: Paul Russell: The Free Will Problem 21: Eileen O'Neill: The Equality of Men and Women 22: Ian Hunter: Natural Law as Political Philosophy 23: Ursula Goldenbaum: Sovereignty and Obedience Part V: Religion 24: Steven Nadler: Conceptions of God 25: Desmond M. Clarke: The Epistemology of Religious Belief 26: Philip Milton: Religious Toleration

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provides admirable coverage of a wide range of topics... a wonderful guide to the general contours of philosophical thinking in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, valuable for from advanced undergraduates through seasoned scholars of early modern thought... There are many excellent essays that will bear intellectual fruit through multiple readings... It would be a valuable resource for any philosopher or historian of the early modern period. Karen Detlefsen, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

provides admirable coverage of a wide range of topics... a wonderful guide to the general contours of philosophical thinking in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, valuable for advanced undergraduates through to seasoned scholars of early modern thought... There are many excellent essays that will bear intellectual fruit through multiple readings... It would be a valuable resource for any philosopher or historian of the early modern period. Karen Detlefsen, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Author Information

Desmond M. Clarke is Professor (emeritus) of Philosophy at University College Cork, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is general editor (with Karl Ameriks) of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy; his recent monographs include Descartes's Theory of Mind OUP, 2003) and Descartes: A Biography (CUP, 2006). His translations include a two-volume edition of Descartes for Penguin. Catherine Wilson is Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (OUP2008), Descartes's Meditations: An Introduction (CUP, 2003), and the recently reprinted The Invisible World: Early Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope (Princeton 2009). She was editor of History of Philosophy Quarterly from 1998 to 2003.

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