Learning from Six Philosophers, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume Volume 1

Abstract 1 Preface to Volume 1 1 Abbreviations and Other Conventions Used in Text and Bibliography 2 Introduction 5 Chapter 1 Cartesian and Aristotelian Physics 13 Chapter 2 Matter and Space 24 Chapter 3 Descartes's Physics 43 Chapter 4 Descartes's Dualisms 64 Chapter 5 Descartes on Causation 81 Chapter 6 Preparing to Approach Spinoza 107 Chapter 7 One Extended Substance 126 Chapter 8 Explaining the Parallelism 143 Chapter 9 Explanatory Rationalism 161 Chapter 10 Spinoza on Belief and Error 175 Chapter 11 Desire in Descartes and Spinoza 194 Chapter 12 Leibniz Arrives at Monads 209 Chapter 13 Causation and Perception in Leibniz 224 Chapter 14 Leibniz's Physics 240 Chapter 15 Harmony 255 Chapter 16 Animals That Think 267 Chapter 17 Leibniz's Contained-Predicate Doctrine 290 Chapter 18 Leibniz and Relations 311 Chapter 19 Descartes's Search for Security 330 Chapter 20 Descartes's Stability Project 347