Modern Philosophy

Name: Modern Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780773526822

ISBN-10: 077352682X

ISBN-13: 9780773526822

Edition: 2003

Authors: Richard Francks

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date: 2/3/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements



Introduction: How modern is 'Modern' philosophy?



Rene Descartes



Material Monism or the Great Soup of Being: Descartes' account of the natural world



The possibility of atheism: Descartes and God



The limits of mechanism: the place of human beings in Descartes' world



Selling the picture: Descartes' story of doubt and discovery



Baruch Spinoza



God, or Nature? Spinoza's pantheism



The attribute of thought



Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man



Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz



The Principle of Sufficient Reason



The best of all possible worlds



The world as explicable: Monadology



Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic



John Locke



On living in the world: Locke on the contents of the mind



Locke on nature (and our knowledge of it)



The life of man: Locke's political thought



George Berkeley



Denying the obvious: Berkeley's radical reinterpretation of human experience



Berkeley's disproof of the existence of matter



On what there is: Berkeley's virtual reality



David Hume



Hume's project for a new science: what it is, how it works, and an example



The failure of the project



The lessons of Hume: where do we go from here?


Notes


Bibliography


Index