The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy 2 Volume Paperback Set

List of contributors ix Preface xi Daniel Garber Michael Ayers List of abbreviations xv Introduction 1(8) Michael Ayers Daniel Garber I The context of seventeenth-century philosophy The institutional setting 9(24) Richard Tuck The intellectual setting 33(54) Stephen Menn European philosophical responses to non-European culture: China 87(16) D. E. Mungello II Logic, language, and abstract objects Logic in the seventeenth century: Preliminary remarks and the constituents of the proposition 103(15) Gabriel Nuchelmans Proposition and judgement 118(14) Gabriel Nuchelmans Deductive reasoning 132(15) Gabriel Nuchelmans Method and the study of nature 147(31) Peter Dear Universals, essences, and abstract entities 178(34) Martha Bolton Individuation 212(53) Udo Thiel III God The idea of God 265(40) Jean-Luc Marion Proofs of the existence of God 305(26) Jean-Robert Armogathe The Cartesian dialectic of creation 331(32) Thomas M. Lennon The relation between theology and philosophy 363(30) Nicholas Jolley The religious background of seventeenth-century philosophy 393(32) Richard Popkin IV Body and the physical world The scholastic background 425(29) Roger Ariew Alan Gabbey The occultist tradition and its critics 454(59) Brian Copenhaver Doctrines of explanation in late scholasticism and in the mechanical philosophy 513(40) Steven Nadler New doctrines of body and its powers, place, and space 553(71) Daniel Garber John Henry Lynn Joy Alan Gabbey Knowledge of the existence of body 624(25) Charles McCracken New doctrines of motion 649(31) Alan Gabbey Laws of nature 680(22) J. R. Milton The mathematical realm of nature 702(57) Michael Mahoney V Spirit Soul and mind: Life and thought in the seventeenth century 759(37) Daniel Garber Knowledge of the soul 796(37) Charles McCracken Mind--body problems 833(35) Daniel Garber Margaret Wilson Personal identity 868(45) Udo Thiel The passions in metaphysics and the theory of action 913(40) Susan James VI The understanding The cognitive faculties 953(50) Gary Hatfield Theories of knowledge and belief 1003(59) Michael Ayers Ideas and objective being 1062(46) Michael Ayers Probability and evidence 1108(37) Lorraine Daston Scepticism 1145(50) Charles Larmore VII Will, action, and moral philosophy Determinism and human freedom 1195(84) Robert Sleigh, Jr. Vere Chappell Michael Della Rocca Conceptions of moral philosophy 1279(38) Jill Kraye Divine/natural law theories in ethics 1317(41) Knud Haakonssen Reason, the passions, and the good life 1358(39) Susan James Biobibliographical appendix 1397(190) Roger Ariew Daniel Garber Bibliography 1472(115) Daniel Garber Index of names 1587(10) Index of subjects 1597