The Rationalists Critical Essays on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz,9780847689118

The Rationalists Critical Essays on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz

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ISBN13: 9780847689118
ISBN10: 0847689115
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-10-20
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This book brings together thirteen articles on the most discussed thinkers in the rationalist movement: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Malebranche. These articles address the topics in metaphysics and epistemology that figure most prominently in contemporary work on these philosophers. The articles have all been produced since 1980, and their authors are among the most respected in the field.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Acknowledgments xvii
Descartes
The Method of Doubt
1(18)
Janet Braughton
Descartes's Case for Dualism
19(40)
Marleen Rozemond
The Unity of Descartes's Man
59(30)
Paul Hoffman
How God Causes Motion: Descartes, Divine Sustenance, and Occasionalism
89(14)
Daniel Garber
Spinoza
Spinoza's Necessitarianism
103(28)
Don Garrett
On the Relationship between Mode and Substance in Spinoza's Metaphysics
131(34)
John Carriero
Spinoza's Argument for the Identity Theory
165(28)
Michael Della Rocca
Spinoza's Causal Axiom (Ethics I, Axiom 4)
193(30)
Margaret D. Wilson
Leibniz
Phenomenalism and Corporeal Substance in Leibniz
223(50)
Robert Merrihew Adams
Leibniz and Spinoza on Substance and Mode
273(28)
Christia Mercer
Natures, Laws, and Miracles: The Roots of Leibniz's Critique of Occasionalism
301(26)
Donald P. Rutherford
Leibniz's Theory of Relations
327(16)
David Wong
Malebranche
Occasionalism and General Will in Malebranche
343(20)
Steven Nadler
Bibliography 363(6)
Authors 369

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