1st Edition

Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

Edited By G.A.J. Rogers, Tom Sorell, Jill Kraye Copyright 2010
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

Seventeenth-century philosophy scholars come together in this volume to address the Insiders--Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, and Hobbes--and Outsiders--Pierre Gassendi, Kenelm Digby, Theophilus Gale, Ralph Cudworth and Nicholas Malebranche--of the philosocial canon, and the ways in which reputations are created and confirmed. In their own day, these ten figures were all considered to be... Read more

Introduction: The Creation of the Canon, G.A.J. Rogers  I Outsiders  1. Becoming an Outsider: Gassendi in the History of Philosophy, Margaret J. Osler  2.  Sir Kenelm Digby, Recusant Philosopher,  John Henry  3. Theophilus Gale and Historiography of Philosophy, Stephen Pigney  4. The Standing of Ralph Cudworth as a Philosopher, Benjamin Carter  5. Malebranche and the Canon,  Andrew Pyle  II. Insiders  Descartes  6. Excusable Caricature and Philosophical Relevance: The Case of Descartes, Tom Sorell  7. Descartes’s Reputation, John Cottingham  8. The Political Motivations of Heidegger’s anti-Cartesianism, Emmanuel Faye  Hobbes  9. Hobbes’s Reputation in Anglo-Saxon Philosophy, Tom Sorell  10. A Farewell to Leviathan: Foucault and Hobbes on Power, Sovereignty and War,  Luc Foisneau  Spinoza  11. Spinoza’s Past and Present, Wiep van Bunge  12. Benedictus Patheissimus: The Problem of  Spinoza’s Reputation, Steven Nadler  Locke  13. The Standing and Reputation of John Locke, G.A.J. Rogers  14. The Reputation of Locke’s General Philosophy in Britain in the Twentieth Century, Michael Ayers  Leibniz  15. Leibniz’s Reputation: The Fontenelle Tradition, Daniel Garber  16. Leibniz‘s Reputation in the Eighteenth Century: Kant and Herder, Catherine Wilson  18. The Reception of Leibniz’s Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, Robert Merrihew Adams

Biography

G. A. J. Rogers is Editor of the British Journal for the History of Science, and a Professor of the History of Philosophy at Keele University. 

Tom Sorrell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. 

Jill Kraye is Professor of History of Renaissance Philosophy at the Warburg Institute.