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The Battle of the Gods and Giants : The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715
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...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.