TY - BOOK AU - Pereboom,Derk TI - The rationalists: critical essays on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz T2 - Critical essays on the classics SN - 0847689107 AV - B833 .R323 1999 U1 - ARCH YNDC 149.7 P434R PY - 1999/// CY - New York: PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, KW - Rationalism KW - Philosophy KW - History KW - 17th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368); The method of doubt / Janet Broughton -- Descartes's case for dualism / Marleen Rozemond -- The unity of Descartes's man / Paul Hoffman -- How God causes motion : Descartes, divine sustenance, and occasionalism / Daniel Garber -- Spinoza's necessitarianism / Don Garrett -- On the relationship between mode and substance in Spinoza's metaphysics / John Carriero -- Spinoza's argument for the identity theory / Michael Della Rocca -- Spinoza's causal axiom (Ethics I, axiom 4) / Margaret D. Wilson -- Phenomenalism and corporeal substance in Leibniz / Robert Merrihew Adams --Leibniz and Spinoza on substance and mode / Christia Mercer -- Natures, laws, and miracles : the roots of Leibniz's critique of occasionalism / Donald P. Rutherford -- Leibniz's theory of relations / David Wong -- Occasionalism and general will in Malebranche / Steven Nadler N2 - The book brings together fourteen 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. --From publisher's description ER -