Modern philosophy
Subtitle: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
By: Richard Francks
Series: Fundamentals of philosophy; Fundamentals of philosophy (London, England)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780203501177
Subjects: History & Surveys; PHILOSOPHY; Modern; Modern Philosophy; General
Description: This introductory text for students gives a thematic survey of the ideas of the major philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Topics include Perception And Ideas, Matter And Motion, Necessity And Freedom, And Minds and persons.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: How modern is 'Modern' philosophy?; title: Rene Descartes; title: Material Monism or the Great Soup of Being: Descartes' account of the natural world; title: The possibility of atheism: Descartes and God; title: The limits of mechanism: the place of human beings in Descartes' world; title: Selling the picture: Descartes' story of doubt and discovery; title: Baruch Spinoza; title: God, or Nature? Spinoza's pantheism; title: The attribute of thought; title: Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man; title: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; title: The Principle of Sufficient Reason; title: The best of all possible worlds; title: The world as explicable: Monadology; title: Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic; title: John Locke; title: On living in the world: Locke on the contents of the mind; title: Locke on nature (and our knowledge of it); title: The life of man: Locke's political thought; title: George Berkeley; title: Denying the obvious: Berkeley's radical reinterpretation of human experience; title: Berkeley's disproof of the existence of matter; title: David Hume; title: Hume's project for a new science: what it is, how it works, and an example; title: The failure of the project; title: The lessons of Hume: where do we go from here?