The Battle of the Gods and Giants : : The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715 / / Thomas M. Lennon.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (436 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on Documentation
- CHAPTER I. The Philosophical Terrain
- CHAPTER II. The Giants of the Seventeenth Century
- CHAPTER III. Locke: Gassendist Anti-Cartesian
- CHAPTER IV. The Gods of the Seventeenth Century
- CHAPTER V. Ideas and Representation
- CHAPTER VI. The Untouchable and the Uncuttable
- CHAPTER VII. Innateness, Abstraction, and Essences
- CHAPTER VIII. Philosophy and the Historiography of Philosophy
- Works Cited
- Index