Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz : the concept of substance in seventeenth-century metaphysics
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Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz : the concept of substance in seventeenth-century metaphysics
Routledge, 1993
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Bibliography: p. 199-208
Includes index
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ISBN 9780415090216
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In the course of the book, Roger Woolhouse provides a systematic treatment of the central metaphysical views of these important and interrelated philosophers, considering their areas of agreement and disagreement. Going beyond the conventional classification of the three as the "rationalists", he explores their accounts of what is real and how this lies at the heart of their philosophies. In particular, he shows how they provided the conceptual foundation to the 17th-century science of mechanics.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415090223
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This book introduces student to the three major figures of modern philosophy known as the rationalists. It is not for complete beginners, but it is an accessible account of their thought. By concerning itself with metaphysics, and in particular substance, the book relates an important historical debate largely neglected by the contemporary debates in the once again popular area of traditional metaphysics. in philosophy.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements, Editions and abbreviations, 1. Introduction, 2. Descartes and Substance, 3. Spinoza and Substance, 4. Leibniz and Substance, 5. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and Extended Substance, 6. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and the Mechanics of Extended Substance, 7. Causation, Occasionalism and Force, 8. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and Thinking Substance, 9. Extended Substance and Thinking Substance related: 'the nature of the union between body and mind', 10. Uncreated and Created Substance: God and the World, Bibliography, Index
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