Subject: Philosophy Book Title: Learning from Six Philosophers Volume 2
Learning from Six Philosophers Volume 2
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: 978-0-19-825092-0 doi:10.1093/0198250924.001.0001 |
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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
Chapter 21.
Lockean Ideas, Overview and Foundations
Chapter 22.
Lockean Ideas, Some Details
Chapter 23.
Knowledge of Necessity
Chapter 24.
Descartes's Theory of Modality
Chapter 25.
Secondary Qualities
Chapter 26.
Locke on Essences
Chapter 27.
Substance in Locke
Chapter 28.
Berkeley Against Materialism
Chapter 29.
Berkeley's Uses of Locke's Work
Chapter 30.
Berkeley on Spirits
Chapter 31.
Berkeleian Sensible Things
Chapter 32.
Hume's ‘Ideas’
Chapter 33.
Hume and Belief
Chapter 34.
Some Humean Doctrine About Relations
Chapter 35.
Hume on Causation, Negatively
Chapter 36.
Hume on Causation, Positively
Chapter 37.
Hume on the Existence of Bodies
Chapter 38.
Reason
Chapter 39.
Locke on Diachronic Identity-Judgements
Chapter 40.
Hume and Leibniz on Personal Identity
Bibliography
Index
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doi:10.1093/0198250924.001.0001
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