Description
Book SynopsisContemporary Perspectives on Early Modern Philosophy is a collection of essays dedicated to Vere Chappell, one of the most respected scholars in the field of early modern philosophy. Seventeen distinguished scholars have contributed essays to this collection on topics including dualism, identity and essence, causation, theodicy, free will, perception, abstraction, and the moral law.
Trade Review“Original, incisive, probing essays on central topics in the history of modern philosophy by leaders in the field in honor of one of the masters in the discipline.” — R.C. Sleigh, Jr., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“This volume of eighteen well-crafted analytical essays on Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant is authored and edited by some of the best known historians of philosophy today. Ranging over issues in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, moral philosophy, and the philosophy of science, it is a fitting tribute to a notable scholar.” — Catherine Wilson, City University of New York Graduate Center
Table of ContentsIntroduction
- Gary Matthews
- Descartes’s Fourth Meditation as Theodicy
- Lisa Shapiro
- “Turn My Will in Completely the Opposite Direction”: Radical Doubt and Descartes’s Account of Free Will
- Marleen Rozemond
- Descartes’s Ontology of the Eternal Truths
- Thomas M. Lennon
- The Significance of Descartes’s Objection of Objections
- Alison Simmons
- Guarding the Body: A Cartesian Phenomenology of Perception
- John Carriero
- Substance and Ends in Leibniz
- G.A.J. Rogers
- Locke and the Creation of the Essay
- Nicholas Jolley
- Lockean Abstractionism Versus Cartesian Nativism
- Edwin McCann
- Identity, Essentialism, and the Substance of Body in Locke
- Dan Kaufman
- The Resurrection of the Same Body and the Ontological Status of Organisms: What Locke Should Have (and Could Have) Told Stillingfleet
- Michael Jacovides
- Kenneth P. Winkler
- Locke’s Defense of Mathematical Physics
- Martha Brandt Bolton
- Intellectual Virtue and Moral Law in Locke’s Ethics
- Margaret Atherton
- What Have We Learned When We Learn to See?: Lessons Learned from the Theory of Vision Vindicated
- Janet Broughton
- Hume’s Explanation of Causal Inference
- Stephen Voss
- A Critique of Kantian Sensibility
- Paul Guyer
- Object, Self, and Cause: Kant’s Answers to Hume
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