Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

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1. Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy

   By David Sepkoski

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century? In answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant group of philosophers shared the...

   Published June 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Pierre Bayle's Cartesian Metaphysics

   Rediscovering Early Modern Philosophy

   By Todd Ryan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   In his magnum opus, the Historical and Critical Dictionary, Pierre Bayle offered a series of brilliant criticisms of the major philosophical and theological systems of the 17th Century. Although officially skeptical concerning the attempt to provide a definitive account of the truths of metaphysics...

   Published April 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Philosophy of Robert Boyle

   By Peter Anstey

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
4. Descartes' Natural Philosophy

   Edited by Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster, John Sutton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century 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. The 35 essays, written by some of the world's leading scholars, cover topics as diverse as...

   Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
5. The Soft Underbelly of Reason

   The Passions in the Seventeenth Century

   Edited by Stephen Gaukroger

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   Each of the essays in this collection, written by the most respected academics in their fields, provides both an insightful and valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century....

   Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
6. Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations

   By Cecilia Wee

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   Material Falsity and Error in Descartes’s Meditations approaches Descartes’s Meditations as an intellectual journey, wherein Descartes’s views develop and change as he makes new discoveries about self, God and matter. The first book to focus closely on Descartes’s notion of material falsity, it...

   Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
7. Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion

   Descartes and Beyond

   Edited by Peter Anstey, Dana Jalobeanu

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century 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...

   Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
8. Leibniz's Final System

   Monads, Matter, and Animals

   By Glenn A. Hartz

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was one of the central figures of seventeenth-century philosophy, and a huge intellectual figure in his age. This book from Glenn A. Hartz (editor of the influential Leibniz Review) is an advanced study of Leibniz's metaphysics. Hartz analyzes a very complicated topic,...

   Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
9. Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

   Edited by G.A.J. Rogers, Tom Sorell, Jill Kraye

   Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

   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...

   Published August 4th 2009 by Routledge
10. Hobbes and History

    Edited by G.A. John Rogers, Thomas Sorell

    Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy

    Much of Thomas Hobbes's work can be read as historical commentary, taking up questions in the philosophy of history and the rhetorical possibilities of written history. This collection of scholarly essays explores the relation of Hobbes's work to history as a branch of learning....

    Published April 30th 2006 by Routledge