A Companion to Rationalism

Herausgegeben von Nelson, Alan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 894g
• ISBN-13: 9781118360620
• ISBN-10: 1118360621
• Artikelnr.: 36519407

Autorenporträt

Romney Nelson is a #1 Amazon Best Selling Author, teacher and Leading Goal Setting and Habit Development Expert. He commenced his career as a school teacher working in some of the most well-known schools in Australia, including Head of Faculty positions in Oxford and Wimbledon, United Kingdom. Following a career change, he operated a corporate events business in Queensland, Australia, before joining the largest global provider of outside school hours care for schools in 2009. During his 9-years he progressed to a National role responsible for a $30 million portfolio. During his tenure, he was pivotal in building the family business to eventually be sold to a private US investment group. Romney authored his first resource, PE on the GO; a physical education resource for teachers in 2009 and has now through his business 'The Life Graduate Publishing Group', has gone on to author and create over 250 books and resources including three titles that have become Amazon #1 Best Sellers.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xii
Introduction xiv Part I The Core of Rationalism 1 1 The Rationalist Impulse
3 Alan Nelson 2 The Rationalist Conception of Substance 12 Thomas M. Lennon
3 Rationalist Theories of Sense Perception and Mind-Body Relation 31 Gary
Hatfield 4 Rationalism and Education 61 David Cunning Part II The
Historical Background 83 5 Plato's Rationalistic Method 85 Hugh H. Benson 6
Rationalism in Jewish Philosophy 100 Steven Nadler 7 Early Modern Critiques
of Rationalist Psychology 119 Antonia LoLordo 8 Rationalism and Method 137
Matthew J. Kisner 9 Cartesian Imaginations: The Method and Passions of
Imagining 156 Dennis L. Sepper Part III The Heyday of Rationalism 177 10
Descartes' Rationalist Epistemology 179 Lex Newman 11 Rationalism and
Representation 206 Kurt Smith 12 The Role of the Imagination in Rationalist
Philosophies of Mathematics 224 Lawrence Nolan 13 Idealism and Cartesian
Motion 250 Alice Sowaal 14 Leibniz on Shape and the Cartesian Conception of
Body 262 Timothy Crockett 15 Leibniz on Modality, Cognition, and Expression
282 Alan Nelson 16 Rationalist Moral Philosophy 302 Andrew Youpa 17
Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Rationalist Reconceptions of Imagination 322
Dennis L. Sepper 18 Kant and the Two Dogmas of Rationalism 343 Henry E.
Allison Part IV Rationalist Themes in Contemporary Philosophy 361 19
Rationalism in the Phenomenological Tradition 363 David Woodruff Smith 20
Rationalist Elements of Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy 379 Paul
Livingston 21 Proust and the Rationalist Conception of the Self 399 Alan
Nelson 22 Rationalism in Science 408 David Stump 23 Rational Decision
Making: Descriptive, Prescriptive, or Explanatory? 425 Jonathan Michael
Kaplan 24 What is a Feminist to do with Rational Choice? 450 Mariam Thalos
25 Rationalism in the Philosophy of Donald Davidson 468 Richard N. Manning
Index 488

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)