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1 online resource (435 pages). |
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Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy
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Studies in intellectual history and the history of philosophy.
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Cover; Contents. |
| Summary |
By the mid-1600s, the commonsense, manifest picture of the world associated with Aristotle had been undermined by skeptical arguments on the one hand and by the rise of the New Science on the other. What would be the scientific image to succeed the Aristotelian model? Thomas Lennon argues here that the contest between the supporters of Descartes and the supporters of Gassendi to decide this issue was the most important philosophical debate of the latter half of the seventeenth century. Descartes and Gassendi inspired their followers with radically opposed perspectives on space, the objects. |
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Preface; Note on Documentation ; I. The Philosophical Terrain; 1 The Gassendist Failure; 2 The Gassendist Success; 3 The Interminable Battle; 4 Other Wars; II. The Giants of the Seventeenth Century; 5 Dramatis Personae; 6 Mind versus Flesh; 7 Gassendist Theories of Space: Apotheosis and Annihilation ; 8 Physical and Metaphysical Atomism; III. Locke: Gassendist Anti-Cartesian; 9 Locke and Gassendi; 10 Locke and Descartes; 11 Enthusiasm; IV. The Gods of the Seventeenth Century; 12 Descartes's Idealism; 13 Malebranche's Realism; 14 Malebranche's Idealism; V. Ideas and Representation. |
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15 Two Patterns of Ideas16 Arguments for Representationalism; 17 Two Versions of the Causal Argument; VI. The Untouchable and the Uncuttable; 18 Space and Solidity; 19 Simple and Complex Ideas; 20 Primary and Secondary Qualities; 21 Powers; 22 Matter and Creation; 23 The Bestial Soul; VII. Innateness, Abstraction, and Essences; 24 innateness; 25 Essences and Abstraction; 26 The Polemic with Stillingfleet; VIII. Philosophy and the Historiography of Philosophy ; 27 Dissimulation and Meaning; 28 What Locke Said; 29 Two Camps of Historians; 30 History and Interpretation; Works Cited; Index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.
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Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655. |
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650. |
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Locke, John, 1632-1704.
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Locke, John, 1632-1704. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Lennon, Thomas M. Battle of the Gods and Giants : The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 |
| ISBN |
9781400863396 (electronic book) |
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1400863392 (electronic book) |
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