Subject: Philosophy Book Title: Early Modern Philosophy
Early Modern Philosophy
Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics
Mercer, Christia (Editor),
Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy,
Columbia University
O'Neill, Eileen (Editor),
Professor of Philosophy,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Print publication date: 2005
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517760-2
doi:10.1093/0195177606.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-517760-2
doi:10.1093/0195177606.001.0001
Abstract:
This book showcases the best current work now being written on a wide range of issues in early modern philosophy, when some of the most influential current philosophical problems were first identified by figures like Locke, Berkeley, Kant, Spinoza, and Descartes. Collectively the chapters in this book exemplify the wide range of methodological perspectives currently being employed by top figures in the field.
Keywords: Locke, Berkeley, Kant, Spinoza, Descartes, philosophy, methodological perspective
Keywords: Locke, Berkeley, Kant, Spinoza, Descartes, philosophy, methodological perspective
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Dreamers and Madmen
The Second Meditation and Objections to Cartesian Dualism
Back to the Ontological Argument
The Mind-Body Union, Interaction, and Subsumption
The Strange Hybridity of Spinoza's Ethics
“A Free Man Thinks of Nothing Less Than of Death”
Reflections on the Masham-Leibniz Correspondence
Self-Determination
Locke and the Nature of Matter
God and Matter in Locke
Berkeley, God, and Explanation
Occasionalism and Strict Mechanism
Kant on Causality
Kant on Science and Experience
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/0195177606.001.0001
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