NELSON ALAN

A Companion to Rationalism

Herausgeber: Nelson, Alan

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Produktbeschreibung

In this Companion , a cast of established and rising stars in philosophy lays out the historical roots, the celebrated expressions, the controversies, and the contemporary determinations of rationalist thought.

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This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day.

Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers
Critically analyses the concept of rationalism
Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
Also covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought
Organised chronologically
Various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 176mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 1081g
• ISBN-13: 9781405109093
• ISBN-10: 1405109092
• Artikelnr.: 22429901

Autorenporträt

Alan Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a leading scholar of the great philosophical systems of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and has published widely on rationalism in the history of philosophy and in the philosophy of science.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. Introduction.
Part I: The Core of Rationalism. 1. The Rationalist Impulse (Alan Nelson).
2. The Rationalist Conception of Substance (Thomas M. Lennon). 3.
Rationalist Theories of Sense Perception and Mind-Body Relation (Gary
Hatfield). 4. Rationalism and Education (David Cunning). Part II: The
Historical Background. 5. Plato's Rationalistic Method (Hugh H. Benson). 6.
Rationalism in Jewish Philosophy (Steven Nadler). 7. Early Modern Critiques
of Rationalist Psychology (Antonia LoLordo). 8. Rationalism and Method
(Matthew J. Kisner). 9. Cartesian Imaginations: The Method and Passions of
Imagining (Dennis L. Sepper). Part III: The Heyday of Rationalism. 10.
Descartes' Rationalist Epistemology (Lex Newman). 11. Rationalism and
Representation). 12. The Role of the Imagination in Rationalist
Philosophies of Mathematics (Lawrence Nolan). 13. Idealism and Cartesian
Motion (Alice Sowaal). 14. Leibniz on Shape and the Cartesian Conception of
Body (Timothy Crockett). 15. Leibniz on Modality, Cognition, and Expression
(Alan Nelson). 16. Rationalist Moral Philosophy (Andrew Youpa). 17.
Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Rationalist Reconceptions of Imagination (Dennis
L. Sepper). 18. Kant and the Two Dogmas of Rationalism (Henry E. Allison).
Part IV: Rationalist Themes in Contemporary Philosophy. 19. Rationalism in
the Phenomenonological Tradition (David Woodruff Smith). 20. Rationalist
Elements of Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (Paul Livingston). 21.
Proust and the Rationalist Conception of the Self (Alan Nelson). 22.
Rationalism in Science (David Stump). 23. Rationality Decision making:
Descriptive, Prescriptive, or Explanatory (Jonathan Michael Kaplan). 24.
What is a Feminist to do with Rational Choice? (Mariam Thalos). 25.
Rationalism in the Philosophy of Donald Davidson (Richard N. Manning).
Index

Rezensionen

"Addressing topics from epistemology and metaphysics to ethics and psychology, it is the most compete treatment of the subject known to me." "I can recommend this book without hesitation." (Philosophy In Review)

"This companion is large indeed, but the size fits the largeness of its subjects; and it does succeed in its 25 articles in covering that subject . . . A job well done. Recommended." (Choice)