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The rationalists : critical essays on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz / edited by Derk Pereboom

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical essays on the classicsPublication details: New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c 1999 Description: xviii, 370 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0847689107
  • 0847689115
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 149.7 P434R
LOC classification:
  • B833 .R323 1999
  • B833 .R323 1999
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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.

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