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.
By Peter Anstey
November 24, 2011
First Published in 2004. This book presents the first integrated treatment of the mechanical or corpuscular philosophy of Robert Boyle, one of the leading English natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution. It focuses on the concepts central to Boyle?€?s philosophy, including the theory of ...
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By Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster, John Sutton
November 09, 2011
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 ...
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By Stephen Gaukroger
November 09, 2011
This book provides a valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century. The contributors show that fundamental questions about the nature of wisdom, goodness and beauty were understood in terms of the contrast between reason and passions in this era. Those ...
By Cecilia Wee
March 15, 2011
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 ...
By Glenn A. Hartz
December 15, 2010
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, ...
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By Peter R. Anstey
September 25, 2003
This collection of new essays on John Locke's philosophy provides the most up-to-date entrée into the exciting developments taking place in the study of one of the most important contributors to modern thought. Covering Locke's natural philosophy, his political and moral thought and his philosophy ...