Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IV : The Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Rationalism

ISBN-13: 9780415053785 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 480 str.

G. Parkinson; George H. Parkinson; G. H. R. Parkinson

Opis

The philosophy discussed in this volume covers a period of 350 years, from the middle of the 14th century to the early years of the 18th century: the birth of modern philosophy. The chief topics are Renaissance philosophy and 17th century rationalism - in particular Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. The volume does not deal with these movements exclusively, but places them within a wider intellectual context. It considers the scholastic thought with which Renaissance philosophy interacted; it also considers the thought of 17th century philosophers such as Bacon, Hobbes and Gassendi, who were not rationalists but whose thought elicited responses from the rationalists. It considers, too, the important topic of the rise of modern science in the 16th and 17th centuries, and its relations to the philosophy of the period. This volume provides a broad, scholarly introduction to this period for students of philosophy and related disciplines, as well as some original interpretations of these authors. It includes a glossary of technical terms and a chronological table of philosophical, scientific and other cultural events.

Spis treści

1. The philosophy of the Italian Renaissance Jill Kraye , University of London2. Renaissance philosophy outside Italy Stuart Brown , The Open University3. Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes George Mollard , University of Aberdeen4. Francis Bacon and man's two-faced kingdom Antonio Perez-Ramos , University of Murcia, Spain5. Descartes: methodology Stephen Gaukroger , University of Sydney6. Descartes: metaphysics and philosophy of mind John Cottingham , University of Reading7. Seventeenth century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes T. Sorell , The Open University8. Spinoza: metaphysics and knowledge G.H.R. Parkinson , University of Reading9. The moral and political philosophy of Spinoza Hans W.Blom , Erasmus University10. Occasionalism Daisie Radner , State University of New York at Buffalo11. Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics Nicholas Jolley , University of California at San Diego

O autorze

G. H. R. Parkinson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading. He is the General Editor of An Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge, 1988).