Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
About the Book Series
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.
Descartes and Method: A Search for a Method in Meditations
1st Edition
By Clarence A. Bonnen, Daniel E. Flage
December 22, 2014
Rene Descartes credited his success in philosophy, mathematics, and physics to the discovery of a universal method of inquiry, but he provided no systematic description of his method. Descartes and Method carefully examines Descartes' scattered remarks on his application and puts forward a ...
Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue
1st Edition
By Richard Davies
December 01, 2014
Descartes is often regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, and is credited with placing at centre stage the question of what we know and how we know it. Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue seeks to reinsert his work and thought in its contemporary ethical and theological context. Richard...
Pierre Bayle's Cartesian Metaphysics: Rediscovering Early Modern Philosophy
1st Edition
By Todd Ryan
August 12, 2014
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...
Receptions of Descartes: Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Tad M. Schmaltz
April 09, 2013
Receptions of Descartes is a collection of work by an international group of authors that focuses on the various ways in which Descartes was interpreted, defended and criticized in early modern Europe. The book is divided into five sections, the first four of which focus on Descartes' reception in ...
Insiders and Outsiders in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By G.A.J. Rogers, Tom Sorell, Jill Kraye
February 14, 2013
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 ...
Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy
1st Edition
By David Sepkoski
June 13, 2012
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 ...
The Philosophy of Robert Boyle
1st Edition
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 ...
Descartes' Natural Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
The Soft Underbelly of Reason: The Passions in the Seventeenth Century
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations
1st Edition
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 ...
Leibniz's Final System: Monads, Matter, and Animals
1st Edition
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, ...
The Philosophy of John Locke: New Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...