The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Volume I and Volume II
Cambridge/ New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on burgundy title blocks on spines; xvii, 1616 pp, bw illustrations. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.). Item #186469
The ultimate comprehensive, authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy, written by an international team of specialists. The history of science, religious doctrine, and politics feature prominently. The narrative begins with Aristotle's intellectualism, but by the end of the period, the true science of philosophy that we know today had evolved. Two volumes boxed. Contents: vol. 1.; Preface /; Daniel Garber and Michael Ayers --; Introduction /; Michael Ayers and Daniel Garber --; I.; The institutional setting /; Richard Tuck --; The intellectual setting /; Stephen Menn --; European philosophical responses to non-European culture: China /; D.E. Mungello --; II.; Logic, language, and abstract objects --; Logic in the seventeenth century: preliminary remarks and the constituents of the proposition /; Gabriel Nuchelmans --; Proposition and judgement /; Gabriel Nuchelmans --; Deductive reasoning /; Gabriel Nuchelmans --; Method and the study of nature /; Peter Dear --; Universals, essences, and abstract entities /; Martha Bolton --; Individuation /; Udo Thiel --; III.; God --; The idea of God /; Jean-Luc Marion --; Proofs of the existence of God /; Jean-Robert Armogathe --; The Cartesian dialectic of creation /; Thomas M. Lennon --; The relation between theology and philosophy /; Nicholas Jolley --; The religious background of seventeenth-century philosophy /; Richard Popkin --; IV.; Body and the physical world --; The scholastic background /; Roger Ariew and Alan Gabbey --; The occultist tradition and its critics /; Brian Copenhaver --; Doctrines of explanation in late scholasticism and in the mechanical philosophy /; Steven Nadler --; New doctrines of body and its powers, place, and space /; Daniel Garber, John Henry, Lynn Joy, and Alan Gabbey --; Knowledge of the existence of body /; Charles McCracken --; New doctrines of motion /; Alan Gabbey --; Laws of nature /; J.R. Milton --; The mathematical realm of nature /; Michael Mahoney --; V.; Spirit --; Soul and mind: life and thought in the seventeenth century /; Daniel Garber --; Knowledge of the soul /; Charles McCracken --; Mind-body problems /; Daniel Garber and Margaret Wilson --; Personal identity /; Udo Thiel --; The passions in metaphysics and the theory of action /; Susan James.; vol. 2.; VI.; The understanding --; The cognitive faculties /; Gary Hatfield --; Theories of knowledge and belief /; Michael Ayers --; Ideas and objective being /; Michael Ayers --; Probability and evidence /; Lorraine Daston --; Skepticism /; Charles Larmore --; VII.; Will, action, and moral philosophy --; Determinism and human freedom /; Robert Sleigh, Vere Chappell, and Michael Della Rocca --; Conceptions of moral philosophy /; Jill Kraye --; Divine/natural law theories in ethics /; Knud Haakonssen --; Reason, the passions, and the good life /; Susan James.
OCLC: 34943271
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