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.
Locke’s Ideas of Mind and Body
1st Edition
By Han-Kyul Kim
September 30, 2021
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’...
Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy
1st Edition
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By Dominik Perler, Sebastian Bender
June 30, 2021
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 ...
Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy
1st Edition
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By Alberto Vanzo, Peter R. Anstey
June 30, 2021
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 ...
Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact
1st Edition
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By Julia Weckend, Lloyd Strickland
June 30, 2021
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 ...
Mind, Body, and Morality: New Perspectives on Descartes and Spinoza
1st Edition
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By Martina Reuter, Frans Svensson
June 30, 2021
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 ...
Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in his Reception
1st Edition
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By Delphine Antoine-Mahut, Sophie Roux
June 30, 2021
This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes’ philosophy. According to the standard account, Descartes modified the objects of metaphysics and physics and inverted the order in which these two disciplines were traditionally studied. This book challenges the ...
The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Peter R. Anstey
December 10, 2019
This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought. Principles are almost ubiquitous in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the term appears in famous book titles, such as Newton’s Principia; the notion plays a ...
Locke's Science of Knowledge
1st Edition
By Matt Priselac
March 05, 2019
John Locke’s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding begins with a clear statement of an epistemological goal: to explain the limits of human knowledge, opinion, and ignorance. The actual text of the Essay, in stark contrast, takes a long and seemingly meandering path before returning to that goal ...
Locke and Leibniz on Substance
1st Edition
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By Paul Lodge, Tom Stoneham
November 28, 2017
Locke and Leibniz on Substance gathers together papers by an international group of academic experts, examining the metaphysical concept of substance in the writings of these two towering philosophers of the early modern period. Each of these newly-commissioned essays considers important ...
Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion: Descartes and Beyond
1st Edition
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By Peter Anstey, Dana Jalobeanu
November 28, 2017
This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the ...
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...