Modern Philosophy (16th Century-18th Century) Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge Guidebook to Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding

   By E. J. Lowe

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   John Locke is widely acknowledged as the most important figure in the history of English philosophy and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is his greatest intellectual work, emphasising the importance of experience for the formation of knowledge. The Routledge Guidebook to Locke’s Essay...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

   By Sandrine Berges

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Debates in Modern Philosophy

   Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses

   Edited by Stewart Duncan, Antonia LoLordo

   Series: Key Debates in the History of Philosophy

   Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses provides an in-depth, engaging introduction to important issues in modern philosophy. It presents 13 key interpretive debates to students, and ranges in coverage from Descartes' Meditations to Kant's Critique of Pure...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Self, Reason, and Freedom

   A New Light on Descartes' Metaphysics

   By Andrea Christofidou

   Freedom and its internal relation to reason is fundamental to Descartes’ philosophy in general, and to his Meditations on First Philosophy in particular. Without freedom his entire enquiry would not get off the ground, and without understanding the rôle of freedom in his work, we could not...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
5. Kant and Non-Conceptual Content

   Edited by Dietmar Heidemann

   Conceptualism is the view that cognizers can have mental representations of the world only if they possess the adequate concepts by means of which they can specify what they represent. By contrast, non-conceptualism is the view that mental representations of the world do not necessarily presuppose...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Politics of Nothing

   On Sovereignty

   Edited by Clare Monagle, Dimitris Vardoulakis

   This book questions what sovereignty looks like when it is de-ontologised; when the nothingness at the heart of claims to sovereignty is unmasked and laid bare. Drawing on critical thinkers in political theology, such as Schmitt, Agamben, Nancy, Blanchot, Paulhan, The Politics of Nothing asks what...

   Published November 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Spinozistic Ethics of Bertrand Russell

   By Kenneth Blackwell

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

   Bertrand Russell’s professional philosophical reputation rests mainly on his mathematical logic and theory of knowledge. In this study, first published in 1985, however, Kenneth Blackwell considers Russell’s writings on ethics and metaethics and uncovers the conceptual unity in Russell’s normative...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
8. Hume's Philosophy of Belief (Routledge Revivals)

   A Study of His First 'Inquiry'

   By Antony Flew

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1961, this book considers Hume’s request to be judged solely by the acknowledged works of his maturity. It focuses on Hume’s first Inquiry in its own right as a separate book to the likes of his other works, such as the Treatise and the Dialogues, which are here only used as...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. Concepts and Reality in the History of Philosophy

   Tracing a Philosophical Error from Locke to Bradley

   By Fiona Ellis

   Series: Routledge Advances in the History of Philosophy

   This book traces a deep misunderstanding about the relation of concepts and reality in the history of philosophy. It exposes the influence of the mistake in the thought of Locke, Berkeley, Kant, Nietzche and Bradley, and suggests that the solution can be found in Hegelian thought. Ellis argues that...

   Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Disjunctivism

    Disjunctive Accounts in Epistemology and in the Philosophy of Perception

    Edited by Marcus Willaschek

    Does perception provide us with direct and unmediated access to the world around us? The so-called 'argument from illusion ' has traditionally been supposed to show otherwise: from the subject's point of view, perceptual illusions are often indistinguishable from veridical perceptions; hence,...

    Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge