Subject: Philosophy Book Title: New Essays on the Rationalists
New Essays on the Rationalists
Gennaro, Rocco J.
(Editor), Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Indiana State University, Terre Haute
Huenemann, Charles
(Editor), Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Utah State University
Print publication date: 2003
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-516541-8
doi:10.1093/0195165411.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-516541-8
doi:10.1093/0195165411.001.0001
Abstract:
This anthology presents recent writings on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz. All of the essays were written especially for this volume, and many of them grew out of a 1995 NEH summer seminar on the Rationalists hosted by Jonathan Bennett at Syracuse University. The collection is divided into three parts: “Matter and Substance,” “Freedom and Necessity,” and “Mind and Consciousness.” Essays include those written by Jonathan Bennett, J. A. Cover, Edwin Curley, Michael Della Rocca, Don Garrett, Stephen Voss, Catherine Wilson, and Margaret D. Wilson. Some specific topics include Descartes's conception of empty space (i.e., vacuum), Leibniz on the infinite divisibility of matter, Spinoza's “necessitarianism,” and Spinoza and Leibniz on animal mentality and consciousness.
Keywords: consciousness, Descartes, enlightenment, freedom, Rocco Gennaro, history of philosophy, Charles Huenemann, Leibniz, matter, mind, necessity, philosophy, rationalists, Spinoza, substance
Keywords: consciousness, Descartes, enlightenment, freedom, Rocco Gennaro, history of philosophy, Charles Huenemann, Leibniz, matter, mind, necessity, philosophy, rationalists, Spinoza, substance
Table of Contents
1. Space and Subtle Matter in Descartes's Metaphysics
2. Descartes on Nothing in Particular
3. “If a Body Meet a Body”
4. Descartes's Extended Substances
5. Spinoza's Extended Substance
6. Leibniz's Constructivism and Infinitely Folded Matter
7. Locke and Leibniz and the Debate Over Species
8. Descartes on Spontaneity, Indifference, and Alternatives
9. The Range of Leibnizian Compatibilism
10. The Necessity of Finite Modes and Geometrical Containment in Spinoza's Metaphysics
11. Spinoza's Necessitarianism Reconsidered
12. A Spectator at the Theater of the World
13. Distinctness
14. Causation and Similarity in Descartes
15. Teleology in Spinoza and Early Modern Rationalism
16. “For They Do not Agree in Nature With Us”
17. Leibniz on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness
18. The Illusory Nature of Leibniz's System
Index
doi:10.1093/0195165411.001.0001
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