A Companion to Rationalism
Published on 26. November 2007
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528 pages
978-0-470-99690-4 (ISBN)
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This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day. * Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers. * Critically analyses the concept of rationalism. * Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. * Also covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought. * Organised chronologically. * Various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented.
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"Addressing topics from epistemology and metaphysics to ethics and psychology, it is the most compete treatment of the subject know to me." "I can recommend this book without hesitation." (Philosophy In Review) "This companion is large indeed, but the size fits the largeness of its subjects; and it does succeed in its 25 articles in covering that subject ... A job well done. Recommended." (Choice)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 181 mm
Thickness: 45 mm
Weight
1086 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-99690-4 (9780470996904)
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Person
Alan Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a leading scholar of the great philosophical systems of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and has published widely on rationalism in the history of philosophy and in the philosophy of science.
Content
List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. Part I: The Core of Rationalism. 1. The Rationalist Impulse (Alan Nelson). 2. The Rationalist Conception of Substance (Thomas M. Lennon). 3. Rationalist Theories of Sense Perception and Mind-Body Relation (Gary Hatfield). 4. Rationalism and Education (David Cunning). Part II: The Historical Background. 5. Plato's Rationalistic Method (Hugh H. Benson). 6. Rationalism in Jewish Philosophy (Steven Nadler). 7. Early Modern Critiques of Rationalist Psychology (Antonia LoLordo). 8. Rationalism and Method (Matthew J. Kisner). 9. Cartesian Imaginations: The Method and Passions of Imagining (Dennis L. Sepper). Part III: The Heyday of Rationalism. 10. Descartes' Rationalist Epistemology (Lex Newman). 11. Rationalism and Representation). 12. The Role of the Imagination in Rationalist Philosophies of Mathematics (Lawrence Nolan). 13. Idealism and Cartesian Motion (Alice Sowaal). 14. Leibniz on Shape and the Cartesian Conception of Body (Timothy Crockett). 15. Leibniz on Modality, Cognition, and Expression (Alan Nelson). 16. Rationalist Moral Philosophy (Andrew Youpa). 17. Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Rationalist Reconceptions of Imagination (Dennis L. Sepper). 18. Kant and the Two Dogmas of Rationalism (Henry E. Allison). Part IV: Rationalist Themes in Contemporary Philosophy. 19. Rationalism in the Phenomenonological Tradition (David Woodruff Smith). 20. Rationalist Elements of Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (Paul Livingston). 21. Proust and the Rationalist Conception of the Self (Alan Nelson). 22. Rationalism in Science (David Stump). 23. Rationality Decision making: Descriptive, Prescriptive, or Explanatory (Jonathan Michael Kaplan). 24. What is a Feminist to do with Rational Choice? (Mariam Thalos). 25. Rationalism in the Philosophy of Donald Davidson (Richard N. Manning). Index