The Rationalists: Between Tradition and Innovation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fraenkel, Carlos (Editor), Perinetti, Dario (Editor), Smith, Justin E. H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: The New Synthese Historical Library ; 65
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Philosophy of mind.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of nature.; History of Philosophy.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Mind.; Philosophy of Nature.; Philosophy of Science.

This volume draws a balanced picture of the Rationalists by bringing their intellectual contexts, sources and full range of interests into sharper focus, without neglecting their core commitment to the epistemological doctrine that earned them their traditional label. The collection of original essa...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction; Carlos Fraenkel, Dario Perinetti, Justin Smith
• Part I Continuities between the Premodern and the Modern
• 1. Descartes on the Human Nature and the Human Good; Lisa Shapiro
• 2. Spinoza on Philosophy and Religion: The Averroistic Sources; Carlos Fraenkel
• 3. Music, Mechanics and ‘Mixed Mathematics’; Alison Laywine
• Part II Creating Traditions
• 4. Ethics in Descartes and Seventeenth Century Cartesian Textbooks; Roger Ariew
• 5. Louis Bourguet and the Model of Organic Bodies; François Duchesneau
• Part III Rethinking Spinoza
• 6. “Nemo non videt”: Intuitive Knowledge and the Question of Spinoza’s Elitism; Hasana Sharp
• 7. Rationalism versus Subjective Experience: The Problem of the Two Minds in Spinoza; Syliane Malinowski-Charles
• Part IV Legacies of Rationalism
• 8. Spinoza’s Anti-Humanism: An Outline; Yitzhak Y. Melamed
• 9. Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Gods of Philosophy; Steven Nadler
• 10.Leibniz on Infinite Beings and Non-Beings; Ohad Nachtomy
• 11.Grounding the Principle of Sufficient Reason: Leibnizian Rationalism and the Humean Challenge; Brandon C. Look
• Name Index
• Subject Index.