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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.

Table of 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

About the Author :
Jonathan Bennett, who now lives on an island near Vancouver, BC, was formerly Lecturer in Moral Science at the University of Cambridge, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and then at Syracuse University. He has held visiting positions at Cornell, Michigan,Pittsburgh, and Princeton, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He is Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy.

Review :
`Bennett ... tackles each philosopher head-on, aiming to expound his doctrines and arguments to contemporary readers, to evaluate them, and to make living works of them ... I am convinced that this is the best way to read the philosophers of the past ... I cannot report on all the riches of these two absolutely admirable volumes, written in a clear style and giving sense to the phrase search for truth.' Pascal Engel, Revue Philosophique, Ad 05/06/2001


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198250920
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 242 mm
  • No of Pages: 396
  • Series Title: Learning from Six Philosophers
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Width: 164 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0198250924
  • Publisher Date: 22 Feb 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Learning from Six Philosophers
  • Weight: 724 gr


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