The battle of the Gods and Giants redux : papers presented to Thomas M. Lennon

Author(s)

• Easton, Patricia Ann
• Smith, Kurt

Bibliographic Information

The battle of the Gods and Giants redux : papers presented to Thomas M. Lennon

edited by Patricia Easton and Kurt Smith

（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 248）

Brill, c2015

• : hardback

Note

Thomas M. Lennon bibliography: p. [335]-341

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-334) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Battle of Gods and Giants Redux is a collection of 14 original essays by leading scholars in the field. Part One includes figures and topics associated with Descartes, the chief idealist in the story, including Leibniz, Spinoza, and Malebranche; Part Two includes figures and topics that fall on the Gassendist materialist side of the battle, including Hobbes, Bayle, and Locke. In organizing these varied discussions along these themes and lines, something more than the sum of the parts emerges. The reader will gain a breadth and depth of insight into the battle of ideas in early modern thought-historical, philosophical, and interpretive. Contributors are: Margaret Atherton, Martha Brandt Bolten, Patricia Easton, Lorne Falkenstein, Nicolas Jolley, Jose Maia Neto, Steven Nadler, Alan Nelson, Lawrence Nolan, Donald Rutherford, Tad Schmultz, Kurt Smith, Julie Walsh, and Richard Watson.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION: Explanatory narratives in the history of philosophy PATRICIA EASTON FOREWORD: Pascal, Piety, and Les Roannez RICHARD WATSON PART ONE: THE GODS What is Ancient in French Cartesianism? TAD SCHMALTZ Leibniz, Plato, and "The Dignity of Our Mind" NICHOLAS JOLLEY Lennon on Descartes and Skepticism JOSE MAIA NETO Clarity and Distinctness as Cartesian Criteria: A Response to Lennon KURT SMITH Descartes' Logic and the Paradox of Deduction ALAN NELSON & BRIAN ROGERS Cartesian Trialism on Trial: The Conceptualist Account of Descartes' Human Being LAWRENCE NOLAN Spinoza, Maimonides, and Prophecy STEVEN NADLER Malebranche, Freedom, and the Divided Mind JULIE WALSH PART TWO: THE GIANTS Hobbes on Moral Virtue and the Laws of Nature DONALD RUTHERFORD Sincerity and Skepticism in Pierre Bayle PATRICIA EASTON Locke and Berkeley on Real Knowledge MARGARET ATHERTON Berkeley's Visual Language Thesis MARTHA BOLTON Berkeley on Situation and Inversion LORNE FALKENSTEIN WORKS CITED LENNON BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Details

• NCID: BB19660221
• ISBN:
  • 9789004305915
• LCCN: 2015028495
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: ix, 345 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B1875
  • DC23 : 190
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Descartes, René, 1596-1650
  • LCSH : Philosophy, Modern -- 17th century
  • FREE : Lennon, Thomas M.
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0144067X