Ideas, mental faculties, and method : : the logic of ideas of Descartes and Locke and its reception in the Dutch Republic / / Paul Schuurman.

The seventeenth century was a period of dramatic change in the field of philosophy. In logic, traditional Aristotelian textbooks were transformed by the emergence of an alternative ‘logic of ideas’. This new logic was developed by Descartes and Locke, its main representatives, and by Arnauld and Mal...

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Superior document:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 125
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2004.
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 125.
Physical Description:1 online resource (204 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Chapter One: Introduction
  • Chapter Two: The Logic of Ideas
  • Chapter Three: Structure of the New Logic
  • Chapter Four: The Dutch Context
  • Chapter Five: Jean le Clerc: Lockean Empiricism in Textbook Format (1692)
  • Chapter Six: Jean-Pierre de Crousaz: Accommodation between Old and New Logic (1725)
  • Chapter Seven: Nicolaus Engelhard's Wolffianism (1732)
  • Chapter Eight: Willem Jacob's Gravesande's Philosophical Defence of Newtonianism (1736)
  • Chapter Nine: Petrus van Musschenbroek: Logic and Natural Science Part Ways (1748)
  • Chapter Ten: Conclusion: Dutch Eclectic Logic, 1690-1750
  • Bibliography
  • Index of names.