Learning from Six Philosophers

Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume Volume 2
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-825092-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 396 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 757 g

Jonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. While not neglecting the historical setting of each, his chief focus is on the words they wrote. What problem is being tackled? How exactly is the solution meant to work? Does it succeed? If not, why not? What can we learn from its success or its failure? These questions reflect Bennett's dedication to engaging with philosophy as philosophy, not as museum exhibit, and they require a close and demanding attention to textual details; these being two features that characterize all Bennett's work on early modern philosophy.

For newcomers to the early modern scene, this clearly written work is an excellent introduction to it. Those already in the know can learn how to argue with the great philosophers of the past, treating them as colleagues, antagonists, students, teachers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bennett, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Volume 1

- 1: Cartesian and Aristotelian Physics

- 2: Matter and Space

- 3: Descartes's Physics

- 4: Descartes's Dualisms

- 5: Descartes on Causation

- 6: Preparing to Approach Spinoza

- 7: One Extended Substance

- 8: Explaining the Parallelism

- 9: Explanatory Rationalism

- 10: Spinoza on Belief and Error

- 11: Desire in Descartes and Spinoza

- 12: Leibniz Arrives at Monads

- 13: Causation and Perception in Leibniz

- 14: Leibniz's Physics

- 15: Harmony

- 16: Animals that Think

- 17: Leibniz'a Contained-Predicate Doctrine

- 18: Leibniz and Relations

- 19: Descartes's Search for Security

- 20: Descartes's Stability Project

- Volume 2

- 21: Lockean Ideas: Overview and Foundations

- 22: Lockean Ideas: Some Details

- 23: Knowledge of Necessity

- 24: Descartes's Theory of Modality

- 25: Secondary Qualities

- 26: Locke on Essences

- 27: Substance in Locke

- 28: Berkeley against Materialism

- 29: Berkeley's Use of Locke's Work

- 30: Berkeley on Spirits

- 31: Berkeleian Sensible Things

- 32: Hume's 'Ideas'

- 33: Hume and Belief

- 34: Some Humean Doctrine about Relations

- 35: Hume on Causation: Negative

- 36: Hume on Causation: Positive

- 37: Hume on the Existence of Bodies

- 38: Reason

- 39: Locke on Diachronic Identity-Judgements

- 40: Hume and Leibniz on Personal Identity

- Bibliography, Index of Persons, Index of Topics

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Bennett, who now lives on an island near Vancouver, BC, was formerly Lecturer in Moral Science at the University of Cambridge, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and then at
Syracuse University. He has held visiting positions at Cornell, Michigan,Pittsburgh, and Princeton, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a visiting Fellow at All Souls
College, Oxford. He is Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy.