Modern Philosophy An Anthology of Primary Sources

Name: Modern Philosophy An Anthology of Primary Sources
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ISBN: 9780872204409

ISBN-10: 0872204405

ISBN-13: 9780872204409

Edition: 1998

Authors: Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins

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This new anthology offers the key works of seven major philosophers along with a rich selection of associated texts by other leading thinkers of the period chosen to enhance the reader's understanding of modern philosophy and its relationship to the natural science of the time. A brief general introduction describes the intellectual climate in which the works to follow were conceived. Short chapter introductions give pertinent details about specific philosophers and their works. Texts are provided in their entirety or in substantive selections, including a new abridgement of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason commissioned especially for this volume. Alternatives to the 'main' texts -- for…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 780
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Eric Watkins is professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. The recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he is the author of Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality, which won the Book Prize in 2005 from the Journal of the History of Philosophy.



General Introduction



Descartes's Meditations and Associated Texts


Bacon, New Organon I, Aphorisms 1-3, 11-31, and 36-46


Galileo, The Assayer, "Corpuscularianism"


Descartes, Discourse on Method 1, 2, and 5


Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy


Descartes, Hobbes, and Arnauld, Objections and Replies II, III, and IV


Spinoza, Descartes's Principles of Philosophy, "Prolegomenon" and "Definitions"


Leibniz, On Descartes (from the Letters to Foucher, to Elizabeth, and to Molanus)


Pascal, Pensees, "The Wager"



Spinoza's Ethics and Associated Texts


Hobbes, Leviathan, Introduction, 1-6, 34, and 46


Spinoza, From the Letters to Oldenburg and to Meyer (Letters 2, 12, and 32)


Spinoza, The Ethics, Books I, II, and V



Leibniz's Monadology and Other Essays


Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics


Leibniz, From the Letters to Arnauld


Leibniz, Primary Truths


Leibniz, New System of Nature


Leibniz, The Principles of Philosophy or the Monadology


Newton, Principia, "Scholium to Definitions"


Leibniz, From the Letters to Clarke



Locke's Essay and Associated Texts


Boyle, Of the Excellency and Grounds of the Corpuscular or Mechanical Philosophy


Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding I.1-2, II.1-14, 21-23, 27, III.3, 6, and IV. 1-4, 10-11, 15-16


Leibniz, New Essays, Preface



Berkeley's Dialogues and Associated Texts


Malebranche, Search after Truth, III.2.1-7, Vi.2.3, and Elucid. 15


Berkeley, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous


Berkeley, Principles of Human Knowledge, Preface, Introduction, Part I, sec. 1-33


Berkeley, On Motion, 1-6, 26-28, 35-41, 52-53, 66-67, and 71-72



Hume's Inquiry and Associated Texts


Bayle, Dictionary, "Pyrrho," note B


Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding


Hume, A Treatise on Human Nature, I.4.5-6



Kant's Prolegomena and Critique of Pure Reason


Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics


Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, abridged