Ideas and Mechanism : : Essays on Early Modern Philosophy /

Ideas and Mechanism : : Essays on Early Modern Philosophy / / Margaret Dauler Wilson.

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For more than three decades, Margaret Wilson's essays on early modern philosophy have influenced scholarly debate. Many are considered classics in the field and remain as important today as they were when they were first published. Until now, however, they have never been available in book form...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Wilson, Margaret Dauler,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1999
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 75
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Physical Description:1 online resource (546 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • EDITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS
  • CHAPTER 1. Skepticism without Indubitability
  • CHAPTER 2. Descartes on Sense and "Resemblance"
  • CHAPTER 3. Descartes on the Perception of Primary Qualities
  • CHAPTER 4. Descartes on the Origin of Sensation
  • CHAPTER 5. Descartes on the Representationality of Sensation
  • CHAPTER 6. Descartes; The Epistemological Argument for Mind-Body Distinctness
  • CHAPTER 7. True and Immutable Natures
  • CHAPTER 8. Can I Be the Cause of My Idea of the World? (Descartes on the Infinite and Indefinite)
  • CHAPTER 9. Objects, Ideas, and "Minds"; Comments on Spinoza's Theory of Mind
  • CHAPTER 10. Spinoza's Causal Axiom (Ethics I, Axiom 4)
  • CHAPTER 11. Infinite Understanding, Scientia intuiliva, and Ethics 1.16
  • CHAPTER 12. "For They Do Not Agree in Nature with Us": Spinoza on the Lower Animals
  • CHAPTER 13. Superadded Properties: The Limits of Mechanism in Locke
  • CHAPTER 14. Discussion: Superadded Properties: A Reply to M. R. Ayers
  • CHAPTER 15. Did Berkeley Completely Misunderstand the Basis of the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction in Locke?
  • CHAPTER 16. Berkeley on the Mind-Dependence of Colors
  • CHAPTER 17. Berkeley and the Essence of the Corpuscularians
  • CHAPTER 18. The Issue of "Common Sensibles" in Berkeley's New Theory of Vision
  • CHAPTER 19. Kant and "The Dogmatic Idealism of Berkeley"
  • CHAPTER 20. The "Phenomenalisms" of Berkeley and Kant
  • CHAPTER 21. The "Phenomenalisms" of Leibniz and Berkeley
  • CHAPTER 22. Confused Ideas
  • CHAPTER 23. Confused vs. Distinct Perception in Leibniz: Consciousness, Representation, and God's Mind
  • CHAPTER 24. Leibniz and Locke on "First Truths"
  • CHAPTER 25. Leibniz: Self-Consciousness and Immortality in the Paris Notes and After
  • CHAPTER 26. Leibniz and Materialsm
  • CHAPTER 27. Possible Gods
  • CHAPTER 28. Leibniz's Dynamics and Contingency in Nature
  • CHAPTER 29. Compossibility and Law
  • CHAPTER 30. History of Philosophy in Philosophy Today; and the Case of the Sensible Qualities
  • CHAPTER 31. Animal Ideas
  • SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX

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