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Learning from Six Philosophers
Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume
Volume 2

Jonathan Bennett

Price: £58.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-825092-0
Publication date: 22 February 2001
400 pages, 234x156 mm
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Reviews
  • 'Its discussion of the various modern philosophers is fairly compact and orderly ... a clear and engaging discussion of central issues in early modern metaphysics and epistemology' - Mind
  • 'Very interesting and profitable to read' - Michael Ayers, Times Literary Supplement
  • 'A noteworthy feature of the book is the continuously powerful presence of an authorial self ... This book will be widely read and discussed both for its virtues and, I trust, like the works it discusses, for its faults' - Michael Ayers, Times Literary Supplement

Description
Jonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. While not neglecting the historical setting of each, his chief focus is on the words they wrote. What problem is being tackled? How exactly is the solution meant to work? Does it succeed? If not, why not? What can we learn from its success or its failure? These questions reflect Bennett's dedication to engaging with philosophy as philosophy, not as museum exhibit, and they require a close and demanding attention to textual details; these being two features that characterize all Bennett's work on early modern philosophy.
For newcomers to the early modern scene, this clearly written work is an excellent introduction to it. Those already in the know can learn how to argue with the great philosophers of the past, treating them as colleagues, antagonists, students, teachers.

Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy and the history of philosophy. Also historians of seventeenth and eighteenth century thought.

Contents
Volume 1
1. Cartesian and Aristotelian Physics
2. Matter and Space
3. Descartes's Physics
4. Descartes's Dualisms
5. Descartes on Causation
6. Preparing to Approach Spinoza
7. One Extended Substance
8. Explaining the Parallelism
9. Explanatory Rationalism
10. Spinoza on Belief and Error
11. Desire in Descartes and Spinoza
12. Leibniz Arrives at Monads
13. Causation and Perception in Leibniz
14. Leibniz's Physics
15. Harmony
16. Animals that Think
17. Leibniz'a Contained-Predicate Doctrine
18. Leibniz and Relations
19. Descartes's Search for Security
20. Descartes's Stability Project
Volume 2
21. Lockean Ideas: Overview and Foundations
22. Lockean Ideas: Some Details
23. Knowledge of Necessity
24. Descartes's Theory of Modality
25. Secondary Qualities
26. Locke on Essences
27. Substance in Locke
28. Berkeley against Materialism
29. Berkeley's Use of Locke's Work
30. Berkeley on Spirits
31. Berkeleian Sensible Things
32. Hume's 'Ideas'
33. Hume and Belief
34. Some Humean Doctrine about Relations
35. Hume on Causation: Negative
36. Hume on Causation: Positive
37. Hume on the Existence of Bodies
38. Reason
39. Locke on Diachronic Identity-Judgements
40. Hume and Leibniz on Personal Identity
Bibliography, Index of Persons, Index of Topics

Authors, editors, and contributors


Jonathan Bennett, Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University (Emeritus)


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Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present
Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800
Western philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900
Western philosophy, from c 1900 -

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