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This book provides a systematic treatment of Locke's theory of probable assent. It shows how the theory applies to Locke's philosophy of science, moral epistemology, and religious epistemology.

This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes' philosophy. This book challenges the standard account in which Descartes prioritizes metaphysics over physics. The essays in this volume offer a fresh contribution to this important debate in early modern philosophy.

This volume assembles scholars of early modern philosophy, history and science to shed new light on the complex relations between experiment, speculation and religion.

This book focuses on the connections between reinterpreting Descartes and Spinoza.

An original reassessment of Descartes' work which reinserts it in its contemporary context. Explores the notion of intellectual virtue in Descartes' inquiry and argues for a new approach to Descartes' ideas of scepticism and the sciences.

This book presents the first integrated treatment of the philosophy of Robert Boyle, one of the leading English natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution.

In this genuinely ground-breaking book the authors argue against the orthodox conception that Descartes had no method. Through a rigorous and thorough examination they unearth and explain the role of the method of analysis in Meditiations.

Presents a series of criticisms of the major philosophical and theological systems of the 17th Century. Drawing on a range of Bayle's writings, from his early philosophical lectures to his final controversial writings, this title offers studies of Bayle's treatment of such issues as mind-body dualism, causation and God's relation to the world.

A study of Leibniz's metaphysics, this book analyzes the question of whether Leibniz was a metaphysical idealist, realist, or whether he tried to reconcile both trends in his mature philosophy. It demonstrates that it is not possible to maintain compatibility of idealist and realist views - they must be understood as completely separate theories.

This collection of essays breaks new ground in bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to focus on the nature and status of principles in early modern thought. A comprehensive introduction argues that there is a natural "fault line" between propositional and ontological principles, and establishes a clear understanding of how the

These essays provide different, sometimes opposing interpretations of Spinoza's views of freedom, action, and motivation as they operate across all parts of the Ethics and discuss how they contribute to contemporary discussions in the philosophy of action and motivation.

Leibniz made contributions to many areas, including philosophy, mathematics, political and social theory, theology, and various sciences.This volume explores the effects of his insights on subsequent generations of thinkers by tracing the ways in which his ideas have been defended and developed over the course of the last three centuries.

This book focuses on the connections between reinterpreting Descartes and Spinoza.

This book re-examines the roles of causation and cognition in early modern thought. It is unique in that it explores both well-known and understudied historical figures, and in that it emphasizes the intimate relationship between causation and cognition to open up new perspectives on early modern philosophy of mind and metaphysics.

Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Gassendi, Digby, Gale, Cudworth and Malebranche--of the philosocial canon. Contrasting the Insiders' receptions with those of the Outsiders, this collection gives new insight into the history of philosophy.

This volume assembles scholars of early modern philosophy, history and science to shed new light on the complex relations between experiment, speculation and religion.

Pierre Gassendi was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy whose philosophical and scientific works contributed to shaping Western intellectual identity. This collection of essays constitutes the first book on Gassendi in the English language that covers his biography, bibliography, and all aspects of his work.

This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes' philosophy. This book challenges the standard account in which Descartes prioritizes metaphysics over physics. The essays in this volume offer a fresh contribution to this important debate in early modern philosophy.

This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the philosophy of matter to be charted in new ways.

Locke and Leibniz on Substance gathers together papers by an international group of academic experts, examining the metaphysical concept of substance in the writings of these two towering philosophers of the early modern period. Each of these newly-commissioned essays considers important interpretative issues concerning the role that the notion of substance plays in the work of Locke and Leibniz, and its intersection with other key issues, such as personal identity. Contributors also consider the relationship between the two philosophers and contemporaries such as Descartes and Hume.

This collection of essays breaks new ground in bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines to focus on the nature and status of principles in early modern thought. A comprehensive introduction argues that there is a natural "fault line" between propositional and ontological principles, and establishes a clear understanding of how the term principle might be used, and of the kinds of questions that might be raised about its usage. With contributions from leading scholars-including Daniel Garber, William Newman, and Sophie Roux-this book will be of interest to scholars of early modern philosophy, the history of early modern thought, and the history and philosophy of science.

The most comprehensive collection of essays on Descartes' scientific writings ever published, this volume offers a detailed reassessment of Descartes' scientific work and its bearing on his philosophy.

The most comprehensive collection of essays on Descartes' scientific writings ever published, this volume offers a detailed reassessment of Descartes' scientific work and its bearing on his philosophy.

Locke and Leibniz on Substance gathers together papers by an international group of academic experts, examining the metaphysical concept of substance in the writings of these two towering philosophers of the early modern period. Each of these newly-commissioned essays considers important interpretative issues concerning the role that the notion of substance plays in the work of Locke and Leibniz, and its intersection with other key issues, such as personal identity. Contributors also consider the relationship between the two philosophers and contemporaries such as Descartes and Hume.

This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the philosophy of matter to be charted in new ways. Part I concerns Cartesian Matter; Part II covers Matter, Mechanism and Medicine; Part III covers Matter and the Laws of Motion; and Part IV covers Leibniz and Hume. Bringing together some of the worlda (TM)s leading scholars of early modern philosophy, as well as some exciting new researchers, Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion stakes out new territory that all serious scholars of early modern philosophy and science will want to traverse.