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Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy


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Routledge Studies in Seventeenth Century Philosophy publishes significant contributions to the study of this key period in philosophy. It covers studies of single authors as well as principal philosophical areas. More generally it reflects the work of a generation of historians of philosophy who combine historical sensitivity with philosophical vigour.

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Spinoza, Metaphysics, and the Possibility of Salvation The Finite in the Infinite

Spinoza, Metaphysics, and the Possibility of Salvation: The Finite in the Infinite

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By Olli Koistinen
August 01, 2024

This book offers a novel interpretation of Spinoza’s basic metaphysics of God, body, and mind. It considers the fundamental question of how finite things, especially human minds, are in God. Moreover, because for Spinoza God is identical with the universe, the question becomes how finite things are...

Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy

Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy

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Edited By Sebastian Bender, Dominik Perler
June 28, 2024

This book explores different accounts of powers and abilities in early modern philosophy. It analyzes powers and abilities as a package, hopefully enabling us to better understand them both and to see similarities as well as dissimilarities. While some prominent early modern accounts of power have ...

Descartes’s Moral Perfectionism

Descartes’s Moral Perfectionism

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By Frans Svensson
April 23, 2024

This book offers a novel and comprehensive interpretation of Descartes’s moral philosophy. In contrast to other influential interpretations, the book argues that the central tenet of his ethical thought is that each person ought to live in the way that is most conducive to their degree of overall ...

Pierre Gassendi Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy

Pierre Gassendi: Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy

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Edited By Delphine Bellis, Daniel Garber, Carla Rita Palmerino
April 21, 2023

Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) was a major figure in seventeenth-century philosophy and science and his works contributed to shaping Western intellectual identity. Among “new philosophers,” he was considered Descartes’s main rival, and he belonged to the first rank of those attempting to carve out an ...

Locke’s Twilight of Probability An Epistemology of Rational Assent

Locke’s Twilight of Probability: An Epistemology of Rational Assent

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By Mark Boespflug
October 26, 2022

This book provides a systematic treatment of Locke’s theory of probable assent, and shows how the theory applies to Locke’s philosophy of science, moral epistemology, and religious epistemology. There is a powerful case to be made that the most important dimension of Locke’s philosophy is his ...

The Cartesian Semantics of the Port Royal Logic

The Cartesian Semantics of the Port Royal Logic

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By John N. Martin
November 21, 2019

This book sets out for the first time in English and in the terms of modern logic the semantics of the Port Royal Logic (La Logique ou l’Art de penser, 1662-1685) of Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole, perhaps the most influential logic book in the 17th and 18th centuries. Its goal is to explain how...

Freedom, Action, and Motivation in Spinoza’s

Freedom, Action, and Motivation in Spinoza’s "Ethics"

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Edited By Noa Naaman-Zauderer
October 21, 2019

The present volume posits the themes of freedom, action, and motivation as the central principles that drive Spinoza’s Ethics from its first part to its last. It assembles essays by internationally leading scholars who provide different, sometimes opposing interpretations of these fundamental ...

Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact

Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact

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Edited By Julia Weckend, Lloyd Strickland
September 05, 2019

This volume tells the story of the legacy and impact of the great German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Leibniz made significant contributions to many areas, including philosophy, mathematics, political and social theory, theology, and various sciences. The essays in this volume ...

Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy

Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy

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Edited By Dominik Perler, Sebastian Bender
July 30, 2019

This book re-examines the roles of causation and cognition in early modern philosophy. The standard historical narrative suggests that early modern thinkers abandoned Aristotelian models of formal causation in favor of doctrines that appealed to relations of efficient causation between material ...

Locke’s Ideas of Mind and Body

Locke’s Ideas of Mind and Body

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By Han-Kyul Kim
July 02, 2019

This book begins with a survey of various readings of Locke as a materialist, as a substance dualist, and as a property dualist, and demonstrates that these inconsistent interpretations result from a general failure of modern commentators to notice the significance of Locke’s ‘mind-body nominalism’...

Mind, Body, and Morality New Perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza

Mind, Body, and Morality: New Perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza

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Edited By Martina Reuter, Frans Svensson
March 14, 2019

The turn of the millennium has been marked by new developments in the study of early modern philosophy. In particular, the philosophy of René Descartes has been reinterpreted in a number of important and exciting ways, specifically concerning his work on the mind-body union, the connection between ...

Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy

Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy

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Edited By Alberto Vanzo, Peter R. Anstey
March 14, 2019

Experimental philosophy was an exciting and extraordinarily successful development in the study of nature in the seventeenth century. Yet experimental philosophy was not without its critics and was far from the only natural philosophical method on the scene. In particular, experimental philosophy ...

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