The battle of the Gods and Giants redux : : papers presented to Thomas M. Lennon / / edited by Patricia Easton and Kurt Smith.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 248
• TeilnehmendeR: Lennon, Thomas M.; Easton, Patricia Ann, 1964-; Smith, Kurt, 1961-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2015]
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 248.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (355 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction: Explanatory Narratives in the History of Philosophy /; Pascal, Piety, and Les Roannez /; What is Ancient in French Cartesianism? /; Leibniz, Plato, and 'The Dignity of Our Mind' /; Lennon on Descartes and Skepticism /; A Defense of Cartesian Clarity and Distinctness /; Descartes' Logic and the Paradox of Deduction /; Cartesian Trialism on Trial: The Conceptualist Account of Descartes' Human Being /; Spinoza, Maimonides, and Prophecy /; Malebranche, Freedom, and the Divided Mind /; Hobbes on Moral Virtue and the Laws of Nature /; Sincerity and Skepticism in Pierre Bayle: Navigating the Bayle Enigma /; Berkeley and Locke on Real Knowledge /; Berkeley on the Language of Vision and the Rules of Visual Signification /; Berkeley on Situation and Inversion /; Bibliography --; Thomas M. Lennon Bibliography --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-341) and index.
• ISBN: 9004305920
• ISSN: 0920-8607
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Patricia Easton and Kurt Smith.

The Battle of Gods and Giants Redux is a collection of 14 original essays by leading scholars in the field. Part One includes figures and topics associated with Descartes, the chief idealist in the story, including Leibniz, Spinoza, and Malebranche; Part Two includes figures and topics that fall on the Gassendist materialist side of the battle, including Hobbes, Bayle, and Locke. In organizing these varied discussions along these themes and lines, something more than the sum of the parts emerges. The reader will gain a breadth and depth of insight into the battle of ideas in early modern thought-historical, philosophical, and interpretive. Contributors are: Margaret Atherton, Martha Brandt Bolten, Patricia Easton, Lorne Falkenstein, Nicolas Jolley, José Maia Neto, Steven Nadler, Alan Nelson, Lawrence Nolan, Donald Rutherford, Tad Schmultz, Kurt Smith, Julie Walsh, and Richard Watson.