Full title: The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century philosophy. Volume 1 / edited by Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers ; with the assistance of Roger Ariew and Alan Gabbey. [electronic resource]

Author/creator: Garber, Daniel, 1949-, Ayers, Michael, 1935-.

Call Numbers:

Record Identifier: 74VKVZR3VPdl

Language: English

Formats: ebooks

Contents: 1 online resource (xvii, 949 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)., , , , vol. 1. Preface / Daniel Garber and Michael Ayers -- Introduction / Michael Ayers and Daniel Garber -- I. The institutional setting / Richard Tuck -- The intellectual setting / Stephen Menn -- European philosophical responses to non-European culture: China / D.E. Mungello -- II. Logic, language, and abstract objects -- Logic in the seventeenth century: preliminary remarks and the constituents of the proposition / Gabriel Nuchelmans -- Proposition and judgement / Deductive reasoning / Method and the study of nature / Peter Dear -- Universals, essences, and abstract entities / Martha Bolton -- Individuation / Udo Thiel -- III. God -- The idea of God / Jean-Luc Marion -- Proofs of the existence of God / Jean-Robert Armogathe -- The Cartesian dialectic of creation / Thomas M. Lennon -- The relation between theology and philosophy / Nicholas Jolley -- The religious background of seventeenth-century philosophy / Richard Popkin -- IV. Body and the physical world -- The scholastic background / Roger Ariew and Alan Gabbey -- The occultist tradition and its critics / Brian Copenhaver -- Doctrines of explanation in late scholasticism and in the mechanical philosophy / Steven Nadler -- New doctrines of body and its powers, place, and space / Daniel Garber, John Henry, Lynn Joy, and Alan Gabbey -- Knowledge of the existence of body / Charles McCracken -- New doctrines of motion / Alan Gabbey -- Laws of nature / J.R. Milton -- The mathematical realm of nature / Michael Mahoney -- V. Spirit -- Soul and mind: life and thought in the seventeenth century / Daniel Garber -- Knowledge of the soul / Mind-body problems / Daniel Garber and Margaret Wilson -- Personal identity / The passions in metaphysics and the theory of action / Susan James.

Publishers: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).

Permalink: https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVZR3VPdl

DDC: 190.9032

MMS ID: 991023970916002626