Debates in Modern Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses
Redaktion: Duncan, Stewart; Lolordo, Antonia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses provides an in-depth, engaging introduction to important issues in modern philosophy. It presents 13 key interpretive debates to students, and ranges in coverage from Descartes' Meditations to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Debates in Modern Philosophy will help students evaluate different interpretations of key texts from modern philosophy, and provide a model for constructing their own positions in these debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135136598
• Artikelnr.: 39729482

Autorenporträt

Stewart Duncan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida. Antonia LoLordo is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I The Cartesian Circle 1. Descartes on the Consistency of Reason
Harry G. Frankfurt 2. Frankfurt and the Cartesian Circle Lex Newman Part II
Descartes on Mind-Body Interaction 3. Understanding Interaction: What
Descartes Should Have Told Elisabeth David Garber 4. Understanding
Interaction Revisited Deborah Brown Part III Making Sense of Spinoza's
Ethics 5. Excerpts from Spinoza Michael Della Rocca 6. The Sirens of Elea:
Rationalism, Monism and Idealism in Spinoza Yithak Melamed Part IV The
Appeal of Occasionalism 7. Causation, Intentionality, and the Case for
Occasionalism 8. Malebranche on Necessary Connections, Omniscience, and
Omnipotence Sukjae Lee Part V Did Leibniz Believe in Corporeal Substances?
9. Why Corporeal Substances Keep Popping Up in Leibniz's Later Philosophy
Glenn A. Hartz 10. Idealism and Corporeal Substance in Leibniz's
Metaphysics Brandon Look Part VI The Role of Mechanism in Lock's Essay 11.
Lockean Mechanism Edwin McCann 12. Mechanism and Essentialism in Locke's
Thought Lisa Downing Part VII Locke on Personal Identity 13. Locke on
People and Substances William P. Alston and Jonathan Bennett 14. Revisiting
People and Substances Matthew Stuart Part VIII Idealism Without God 15.
Berkeley Without God Margaret Atherton 16. Response to Atherton: No Atheism
Without Skepticism Tom Stoneham Part IX Hume on Causation 17. David Hume:
Objects and Power Galen Strawson 18. Reply to Strawson: 'David Hume:
Objects and Power' Helen Beebee Part X Hume on Miracles 19. Bayes, Hume,
Price, and Miracles John Earman 20. Earman on Hume on Miracles Peter
Millican Part XI Defending the Synthetic A Priori 21. Necessity,
Analyticity, and the A Priori James Van Cleve 22. Pure Intuition and Kant's
Synthetic A Priori Emily Carson Part XII What Is Transcendental Idealism?
23. Excerpts from Kantian Humility Rae Langton 24. Langton, Kant, and
Things in Themselves Lucy Allais Part XIII 25. Does History Have a Future?
Some Reflections on Bennett and Doing Philosophy Historically Daniel Garber
26. Philosophy and Its History Martin Lin