Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy
This is a collection of new, specially written essays on the flowering of modern philosophy on the continent of Europe. The eight leading contributors focus on the work of Descartes, later Cartesians, Leibniz, and Bayle, reassessing the influence of Augustine on Descartes and of the Reformed tradition on Leibniz, and tracing anticipations of Leibniz's monadology in the cabbalistic notions of van Helmont, the preformationist theories of Malebranche, and the experimental work of Dutch microscopists.
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Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy
This is a collection of new, specially written essays on the flowering of modern philosophy on the continent of Europe. The eight leading contributors focus on the work of Descartes, later Cartesians, Leibniz, and Bayle, reassessing the influence of Augustine on Descartes and of the Reformed tradition on Leibniz, and tracing anticipations of Leibniz's monadology in the cabbalistic notions of van Helmont, the preformationist theories of Malebranche, and the experimental work of Dutch microscopists.
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Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy

Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy

Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy

Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy

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This is a collection of new, specially written essays on the flowering of modern philosophy on the continent of Europe. The eight leading contributors focus on the work of Descartes, later Cartesians, Leibniz, and Bayle, reassessing the influence of Augustine on Descartes and of the Reformed tradition on Leibniz, and tracing anticipations of Leibniz's monadology in the cabbalistic notions of van Helmont, the preformationist theories of Malebranche, and the experimental work of Dutch microscopists.

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ISBN-13: 9780198239406
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 01/08/1998
Series: Oxford Studies in the History of Philosophy , #2
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

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University of Lancaster

Table of Contents

Preface1. Descartes, Augustine, and the status of faith, Stephen Menn2. Descartes on innate ideas, sensation, and scholasticism: The response to Regius, Tad M. Schmaltz3. Occasionalism and the mind-body problem, Steven Nadler4. F. M. van Helmont: His philosophical connections and the reception of his later cabbalistic philosophy, Stuart Brown5. Mechanizing Aristotle: Leibniz and reformed philosophy, Christia Mercer6. Leibniz and the animalcula, Catherine Wilson7. Bayle, Locke, and the metaphysics of toleration, Thomas M. Lennon8. Pierre Bayle, libertine?, David Wootton
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