Learning from six philosophers : Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume / / Jonathan Bennett

• Autore: Bennett Jonathan <1930->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Disciplina: 190
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy, Modern; Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""VOLUME 1""; ""Abbreviations""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER 1: CARTESIAN AND ARISTOTELIAN PHYSICS""; ""1. Aristotelian physics: a quick sketch""; ""2. Aristotle and Descartes: how many fundamental kinds?""; ""3. Aristotle and Descartes: four more differences""; ""4. Aristotle and Descartes: teleology""; ""5. Descartes and two predecessors""; ""6. Aristotle, Descartes and the manifest image""; ""CHAPTER 2: MATTER AND SPACE""; ""7. â€?Material = extendedâ€?: why Descartes wanted this doctrine""; ""8. â€?Material = extendedâ€?: how Descartes defended this""; ""9. Solidity"" ; ""10. Space as extended nothing""""11. Container space""; ""12. Spaces and places""; ""13. Space as a system of relations""; ""14. The fourth view: space as a separator""; ""15. Descartes's â€?neighbourâ€? account of motion""; ""CHAPTER 3: DESCARTES'S PHYSICS""; ""16. Smallness of parts""; ""17. Subtleness and speed""; ""18. Qualitative variety""; ""19. Compression""; ""20. The integration problem""; ""21. Light and movement loops""; ""22. Other work for loop theory""; ""23. Traction""; ""24. Weight""; ""25. Was Descartes a â€?new Stoicâ€??""; ""CHAPTER 4: DESCARTES'S DUALISMS"" ; ""26. Property-dualism""""27. The indivisibility argument for the â€?real distinctionâ€?""; ""28. â€?I am unable to distinguish parts in myselfâ€?""; ""29. From conception to possibility""; ""30. From possibility to actuality: essences""; ""31. From possibility to actuality: individual identity""; ""32. The Cartesian concept of man""; ""CHAPTER 5: DESCARTES ON CAUSATION""; ""33. Causation and similarity""; ""34. Varying the causal resources principle""; ""35. Tropes""; ""36. Descartes against tropes""; ""37. Descartes's non-endurance doctrine""; ""38. Body on body""; ""39. Mind on body"" ; ""40. Psychology's invasion of physics""""41. Body on mind: sense perception""; ""42. Mind on mind""; ""CHAPTER 6: PREPARING TO APPROACH SPINOZA""; ""43. How to read the Ethics""; ""44. Spinoza's dualism""; ""45. Spinoza's monism""; ""46. Spinoza's pantheism""; ""47. Spinoza's a priori argument for God's existence""; ""48. Mind-body parallelism""; ""49. Descartes's robot""; ""50. â€?A queer kind of mediumâ€?""; ""CHAPTER 7: ONE EXTENDED SUBSTANCE""; ""51. The thing thought and the independence thought""; ""52. Can a Cartesian body be annihilated?""; ""53. Spinoza sees the problem"" ; ""54. Spinoza's solution and Curley's challenge""""55. Spinoza on bodies as modes""; ""56. Objections by Curley""; ""57. Spinoza's two levels""; ""58. Bodies and motion""; ""CHAPTER 8: EXPLAINING THE PARALLELISM""; ""59. â€?Idea of â€? in Spinoza""; ""60. The official arguments for parallelism""; ""61. The thing-identity thesis: explaining parallelism""; ""62. Trans-attributes qualities""; ""63. A difficulty and a suggested solution""; ""64. Five problems solved""; ""65. A further problem solved: attribute and essence""; ""66. Intellectual limitations?""; ""67. Expressing"" ; ""CHAPTER 9: EXPLANATORY RATIONALISM""
• Sommario/riassunto: In these two volumes 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 be learned from its success or failure? For newcomers to the early modern scene, this clearly written workis an excellent introduction to it. Those already in the know can learn how to argue with the great philosophers of
• Titolo autorizzato: Learning from six philosophers
• ISBN: 0-19-159705-8; 1-281-94370-3; 0-19-152029-2; 9786611943707; 0-19-152030-6; 1-282-23811-6; 9786612238116
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824725503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Learning from Six Philosophers (2 Volumes)