Routledge History of Philosophy. Volume 4 The Renaissance and 17th Century Rationalism

This fourth volume traces the history of Renaissance philosophy and seventeenth century rationalism, covering Descartes and the birth of modern philosophy. The philosophy discussed in this volume covers a period of three hundred and fifty years, from the middle of the fourteenth century to the early years of the eighteenth century: the birth of modern philosophy. The chief topics are Renaissance philosophy and seventeenth century rationalism - in particular Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. The volume does not deal with these movements exclusively, but places them within a wider intellectual context. It considers the scholastic thought with which Renaissance philosophy interacted; it also considers the thought of seventeenth century philosophers such as Bacon, Hobbes and Gassendi, who were not rationalists but whose thought elicited responses from the rationalists. It considers, too, the important topic of the rise of modern science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and its relations to the philosophy of the period. This volume provides a broad, scholarly introduction to this period for students of philosophy and related disciplines, as well as some original interpretations of these authors. It includes a glossary of technical terms and a chronological table of philosophical, scientific and other cultural events. Humanities Cover Page 1 Routledge History of Philosophy - Volume IV 2 Title Page 4 ISBN 0415053781 6 Contents 7 General editors’ preface 9 Notes on contributors 11 Chronology 13 Introduction 29 CHAPTER 1 The philosophy of the Italian Renaissance 43 CHAPTER 2 Renaissance philosophy outside Italy 93 CHAPTER 3 Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes 125 CHAPTER 4 Francis Bacon and man’s two-faced kingdom 158 CHAPTER 5 Descartes: methodology 184 CHAPTER 6 Descartes: metaphysics and the philosophy of mind 215 CHAPTER 7 Seventeenth-century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes 247 CHAPTER 8 Spinoza: metaphysics and knowledge 281 CHAPTER 9 The moral and political philosophy of Spinoza 316 CHAPTER 10 Occasionalism 348 CHAPTER 11 Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics 381 Glossary 417 Index of names 435 Index of subjects 439 The philosophy of the Italian Renaissance / Jill Kraye Renaissance philosophy outside Italy / Stuart Brown Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes / George Molland Francis Bacon and man's two-faced kingdom / Antonio Pe rez-Ramos Descartes / Stephen Gaukroger Descartes / John Cottingham Seventeenth-century materialism / T. Sorell Spinoza / G.H.R. Parkinson The moral and political philosophy of Spinoza / Hans W. Blom Occasionalism / Daisie Radner Leibniz / Nicholas Jolley. The philosophy of the Italian Renaissance / Jill Kraye Renaissance philosophy outside Italy / Stuart Brown Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes / George Molland Francis Bacon and man's two-faced kingdom / Antonio Pérez-Ramos Descartes / Stephen Gaukroger Descartes / John Cottingham Seventeenth-century materialism / T. Sorell Spinoza / G.H.R. Parkinson The moral and political philosophy of Spinoza / Hans W. Blom Occasionalism / Daisie Radner Leibniz / Nicholas Jolley.