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Learning from Six Philosophers Volume 1

Bennett, Jonathan , retired, previously at the Universities of Cambridge and British Columbia, and at Syracuse University, New York

Print publication date: 2001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-825091-3
doi:10.1093/0198250916.001.0001

Abstract: This book presents and analyses the most important parts of the philosophical works of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. Volume 1: the shift from Aristotelian to Cartesian physics; Descartes on matter and space, on causation, and on certainty; Descartes and Spinoza on matter and mind, and on desire; Leibniz's metaphysics (monads) and physics, his theory of animals. Volume 2: Locke on ideas, on necessity, on essences, on substance, on secondary qualities, on personal identity; Descartes on modality; Berkeley's epistemology and metaphysics; Hume on ideas, on belief, on causation, on bodies, on reason; Hume and Leibniz on personal identity.

Keywords: Aristotle, Berkeley, Descartes, empiricism, epistemology, history of philosophy, Hume, Leibniz, Locke, metaphysics, philosophy of science, rationalism, Spinoza

Table of Contents

Preface