OHB BRIT PHILOSOPHY 17C OHBK C

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-954999-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)

Buch, Englisch, 650 Seiten, Format (B × H): 176 mm x 252 mm, Gewicht: 1271 g

The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century comprises twenty-six new essays by leading experts in the field. This unique scholarly resource provides advanced students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the issues that are informing research on the subject, while at the same time offering new directions for research to take. The volume is ambitious in scope: it covers the whole of the seventeenth century, ranging from Francis Bacon to John Locke and Isaac Newton. The Handbook contains five parts: the introductory Part I examines the state of the discipline and the nature of its practitioners as the century unfolded; Part II discusses the leading natural philosophers and the philosophy of nature, including Bacon, Boyle, and Newton; Part III covers knowledge and the human faculty of the understanding; Part IV explores the leading topics in British moral philosophy from the period; and Part V concerns political philosophy. In addition to dealing with canonical authors and celebrated texts, such as Thomas Hobbes and his Leviathan, the Handbook discusses many less well-known figures and debates from the period, whose importance is only now being appreciated.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students in history of philosophy and intellectual history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anstey, Peter R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part I: The discipline of philosophy in seventeenth-century Britain

- 1: Richard Serjeantson: Becoming a philosopher in seventeenth-century Britain

- Part II: Natural Philosophers and the Philosophy of nature

- 2: Guido Giglioni: Francis Bacon

- 3: J. J. MacIntosh: Robert Boyle

- 4: Andrew Janiak: Isaac Newton

- 5: John Henry: The reception of Cartesianism

- 6: Mary Domski: Observation and mathematics

- 7: Steffen Ducheyne: The status of theory and hypotheses

- 8: Michael Edwards: Substance and essence

- 9: Dana Jalobeanu: The nature of body

- 10: Peter R. Anstey: The theory of material qualities

- 11: Justin E. H. Smith: Theories of generation and form

- 12: John Sutton: Soul and body

- Part III: Knowledge and Human Understanding

- 13: Peter R. Anstey: John Locke on the understanding

- 14: Keith Allen: Ideas

- 15: James Franklin: Probable opinion

- 16: Douglas M. Jesseph: Logic and demonstrative knowledge

- Part IV: Moral philosophy

- 17: Samuel Rickless: Will and motivation

- 18: Erin Frykholm and Donald Rutherford: Hedonism and virtue

- 19: Amy Schmitter: Passions and affections

- 20: Thomas Mautner: Natural law and natural rights

- Part V: Political philosophy

- 21: Sarah Hutton: Women, freedom, and equality

- 22: Catherine Wilson: Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan

- 23: A. John Simmons: John Locke's Two Treatises of Government

- 24: Kiyoshi Shimokawa: The origin and development of property

- 25: Conal Condren: Sovereignty

- 26: Jon Parkin: Toleration

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter R. Anstey is the iARC Future Fellow and Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He trained at the University of Sydney and specialises in the thought of Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, and John Locke. He is the author or The Philosophy of Robert Boyle (2000), John Locke and Natural Philosophy (2011) and is currently editing (with Lawrence M. Principe) John Locke: Writings on Natural Philosophy and Medicine for the Clarendon edition of Locke's Works.