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A Companion to Rationalism.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark, NJ :
Wiley,
2012.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half Title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: The Core of Rationalism; Chapter 1: The Rationalist Impulse; I; II; III; IV; V; Chapter 2: The Rationalist Conception of Substance; Two Philosophical Impulses; Substance; The Empiricists on Substance; Descartes on Substance; Spinoza on Attribute; The Subjective Interpretation; The Objective Interpretation; Gueroult; OI and SI; Descartes and Spinoza; References and Further Reading; Chapter 3: Rationalist Theories of Sense Perception and Mind-Body Relation.
- Sense Perception as a Natural ProcessMetaphysical, Epistemological, and Functional Aspects of Perception; Sense, Mind, and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Rationalism; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 4: Rationalism and Education; References and Further Reading; Part II: The Historical Background; Chapter 5: Plato's Rationalistic Method; Preliminaries; The Elenchos; The Method of Hypothesis; The Method of Dialectic; Conclusion; References and Further Reading; Chapter 6: Rationalism in Jewish Philosophy; The Interpretation of Scripture; Reason and the Law; Reason and Happiness.
- The Spinozistic DenouementReferences and Further Reading; Chapter 7: Early Modern Critiques of Rationalist Psychology; Epicurean Empiricism; Critiques of Cartesianism; Conclusion; References and Further Reading; Chapter 8: Rationalism and Method; The Philosophical Background to Method; Descartes' Method; Descartes' Successors: Malebranche and Spinoza on Method; References and Further Reading; Chapter 9: Cartesian Imaginations: The Method and Passions of Imagining; The Status of the Rationalist Image; The Deeper Background.
- Descartes: The Directed Imagination of Mathematics, and Passions as Nascent ImagesMalebranche; Conclusion; References and Further Reading; Part III: The Heyday of Rationalism; Chapter 10: Descartes' Rationalist Epistemology; Descartes on Innateness; Two Rationalist Doctrines; The Methodical Case for the Two Rationalist Doctrines; Acknowledgments; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 11: Rationalism and Representation; The Falsity Inherent in Sensory Ideas; Descartes, Arnauld, and the Notion of Material Falsity; Some Leading Interpretations; A New Interpretation; Conclusion.
- AcknowledgmentsNotes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 12: The Role of the Imagination in Rationalist Philosophies of Mathematics; Introduction; Plato's Divided Line and Mathematical Cognition; The Cartesians and the Problem of Pure Thought; Descartes on the Role of the Imagination in Forming a Distinct Idea of Corporeal Nature; Malebranche on the Role of the Imagination in Mathematical Cognition; Conclusion; References and Further Reading; Chapter 13: Idealism and Cartesian Motion; Cartesian Motion; Classical Problems; Realist and Idealist Resolutions; Conclusion; Acknowledgments.