Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IV The Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Rationalism

1. The philosophy of the Italian Renaissance Jill Kraye , University of London2. Renaissance philosophy outside Italy Stuart Brown , The Open University3. Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes George Mollard , University of Aberdeen4. Francis Bacon and man's two-faced kingdom Antonio Perez-Ramos , University of Murcia, Spain5. Descartes: methodology Stephen Gaukroger , University of Sydney6. Descartes: metaphysics and philosophy of mind John Cottingham , University of Reading7. Seventeenth century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes T. Sorell , The Open University8. Spinoza: metaphysics and knowledge G.H.R. Parkinson , University of Reading9. The moral and political philosophy of Spinoza Hans W.Blom , Erasmus University10. Occasionalism Daisie Radner , State University of New York at Buffalo11. Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics Nicholas Jolley , University of California at San Diego

Biography

G. H. R. Parkinson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading. He is the General Editor of An Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge, 1988).