The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century
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The Oxford handbook of British philosophy in the seventeenth century
Oxford University Press, 2013
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century comprises twenty-six new essays by leading experts in the field. This unique scholarly resource provides advanced students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the issues that are informing research on the subject, while at the same time offering new directions for research to take. The volume is ambitious in scope: it covers the whole of the seventeenth century, ranging from Francis Bacon to John Locke and Isaac Newton. The Handbook contains five parts: the introductory Part I examines the state of the discipline and the nature of its practitioners as the century unfolded; Part II discusses the leading natural philosophers and the philosophy of nature, including Bacon, Boyle, and Newton; Part III covers knowledge and the human faculty of the understanding; Part IV explores the leading topics in British moral philosophy from the period; and Part V concerns political philosophy. In addition to dealing with canonical authors and celebrated texts, such as Thomas Hobbes and his Leviathan, the Handbook discusses many less well-known figures and debates from the period, whose importance is only now being appreciated.
Table of Contents
- PART I: THE DISCIPLINE OF PHILOSOPHY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN
- PART II: NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
- PART III: KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
- PART IV: MORAL PHILOSOPHY
- PART V: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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