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Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy

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ISBN-10: 0198239408

ISBN-13: 9780198239406

Edition: 1997

Authors: M. A. Stewart

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Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy is a collection of new, specially written essays on the flowering of modern philosophy on the continent of Europe. It is the second volume in a series designed to combine historical and analytical commentary on significant topics or periods in the history of philosophy. The philosophy of seventeenth-century Europe was shaped by scientific and theological tensions. These are reflected in different readings of and reactions to Aristotle's philosophy and to the scholastic and other traditions, in the light of new learning and of concerns about matter and mechanism. This volume focuses on the work of Descartes, later Cartesians, Leibniz, and…    
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List price: $175.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/8/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.53" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

M A Stewart is Professor Emeritus of the History of Philosophy at the University of Lancaster, Honorary Research Professor at the University of Aberdeen, and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

Preface
Descartes, Augustine, and the status of faith
Descartes on innate ideas, sensation, and scholasticism: The response to Regius
Occasionalism and the mind-body problem
His philosophical connections and the reception of his later cabbalistic philosophy
Mechanizing Aristotle: Leibniz and reformed philosophy
Leibniz and the animalcula
Bayle, Locke, and the metaphysics of toleration
Pierre Bayle, libertine?