Renaissance and early modern philosophy
By: editors, Peter A. French, Howard K. Wettstein and Bruce Silver
Series: Midwest studies in philosophy -- v. 26
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Modern Philosophy; Renaissance Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "Always to do ladies, damosels, and gentlewomen succour": women and the chivalric code in Malory's "Morte Darthur"  -- Felicia Ackerman; title: Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464): first modern philosopher?  -- Jasper Hopkins; title: Marsilio Ficino on "Significatio"  -- Michael J. B. Allen; title: Pomponazzi: moral virtue in a deterministic universe  -- John L. Treloar; title: The secret of Pico's "Oration": Cabala and renaissance  -- Brian P. Copenhaver; title: Between republic and monarchy? Liberty, security, and the Kingdom of France in Machiavelli  -- Cary Nederman and Tatiana V. Goḿez; title: Montaigne, "An apology for Raymond Sebond": happiness and the poverty of reason  -- Bruce Silver -- The natural philosophy of Giordano Bruno / -- Hilary Gatti; title: Francis Bacon ahd the humanistic aspects of modernity  -- Rose-Mary Sargent; title: Hobbes's atheism  -- Douglas M. Jesseph; title: New wine in old bottles: Gassendi and the Aristotelian origin of physics  -- Margaret J. Oster; title: Descartes. mechanics and the mechanical philosophy  -- Daniel Garber; title: "Presence" and "Likeness" in Arnauld's critique of Malebranche  -- Nancy Kendrick; title: Pascal's wagers  -- Jeff Jordan; title: Eternity and immortality in Spinoza's "Ethics"  -- Steven Nadler; title: Occasionalism and efficacious laws in Malebranche  -- Micholas Jolley; title: What kind of a skeptic was Bayle?  -- Thomas M. Lennon; title: From Locke's "Letter" to Montesquieu's "Lettres" -- Edwin Curley.