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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (290 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Scientia and self-knowledge in Descartes -- Descartes and the action of body on mind -- Intellect and illumination in Malebranche -- Sensation, intentionality, and animal consciousness: Malebranche's theory of the mind -- Malebranch on the soul -- Occasionalism and efficacious laws in Malebranche -- Leibniz and Malebranche on innate ideas -- Leibniz and the excellence of minds -- Leibniz and occasionalism -- Causality and creation in Leibniz -- Leibniz and the causal self-sufficiency of substances -- Leibniz and phenomenalism -- Lockean abstractionism versus Cartesian nativism -- Dull souls and beasts: two anti-Cartesian polemics in Locke -- Berkeley, Malebranche, and vision in God -- Berkeley and Malebranche on causality and volition -- Hume, Malebranche, and the last occult quality. |
| Summary |
This text presents 17 of Nicholas Jolley's essays on early modern philosophy. They focus on two main themes: the debate over the nature of causality; and the issues posed by Descartes' innovations in the philosophy of mind. Together, they show that philosophers in the period are systematic critics of their contemporaries and predecessors. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650. |
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Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715.
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Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715. |
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650. |
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Malebranche, Nicolas, 1638-1715. |
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Philosophy, Modern. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9780191648328 (electronic book) |
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0191648329 (electronic book) |
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9780199669554 |
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