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A Companion to Rationalism


A Companion to Rationalism


Blackwell Companions to Philosophy 1. Aufl.

von: Alan Nelson

39,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.04.2008
ISBN/EAN: 9781405150279
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 528

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<p>This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day.</p> <ul> <li>Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers</li> <li>Critically analyses the concept of rationalism</li> <li>Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries</li> <li>Also covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought</li> <li>Organised chronologically</li> <li>Various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented</li> </ul>
List of Contributors ix <p>Acknowledgments xi</p> <p>List of Abbreviations xii</p> <p>Introduction xiv</p> <p><b>Part I The Core of Rationalism 1</b></p> <p>1 The Rationalist Impulse 3<br /> <i>Alan Nelson</i></p> <p>2 The Rationalist Conception of Substance 12<br /> <i>Thomas M. Lennon</i></p> <p>3 Rationalist Theories of Sense Perception and Mind–Body Relation 31<br /> <i>Gary Hatfield</i></p> <p>4 Rationalism and Education 61<br /> <i>David Cunning</i></p> <p><b>Part II The Historical Background 83</b></p> <p>5 Plato’s Rationalistic Method 85<br /> <i>Hugh H. Benson</i></p> <p>6 Rationalism in Jewish Philosophy 100<br /> <i>Steven Nadler</i></p> <p>7 Early Modern Critiques of Rationalist Psychology 119<br /> <i>Antonia LoLordo</i></p> <p>8 Rationalism and Method 137<br /> <i>Matthew J. Kisner</i></p> <p>9 Cartesian Imaginations: The Method and Passions of Imagining 156<br /> <i>Dennis L. Sepper</i></p> <p><b>Part III The Heyday of Rationalism 177</b></p> <p>10 Descartes’ Rationalist Epistemology 179<br /> <i>Lex Newman</i></p> <p>11 Rationalism and Representation 206<br /> <i>Kurt Smith</i></p> <p>12 The Role of the Imagination in Rationalist Philosophies of Mathematics 224<br /> <i>Lawrence Nolan</i></p> <p>13 Idealism and Cartesian Motion 250<br /> <i>Alice Sowaal</i></p> <p>14 Leibniz on Shape and the Cartesian Conception of Body 262<br /> <i>Timothy Crockett</i></p> <p>15 Leibniz on Modality, Cognition, and Expression 282<br /> <i>Alan Nelson</i></p> <p>16 Rationalist Moral Philosophy 302<br /> <i>Andrew Youpa</i></p> <p>17 Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Rationalist Reconceptions of Imagination 322<br /> <i>Dennis L. Sepper</i></p> <p>18 Kant and the Two Dogmas of Rationalism 343<br /> <i>Henry E. Allison</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Rationalist Themes in Contemporary Philosophy 361</b></p> <p>19 Rationalism in the Phenomenological Tradition 363<br /> <i>David Woodruff Smith</i></p> <p>20 Rationalist Elements of Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy 379<br /> <i>Paul Livingston</i></p> <p>21 Proust and the Rationalist Conception of the Self 399<br /> <i>Alan Nelson</i></p> <p>22 Rationalism in Science 408<br /> <i>David Stump</i></p> <p>23 Rational Decision Making: Descriptive, Prescriptive, or Explanatory? 425<br /> <i>Jonathan Michael Kaplan</i></p> <p>24 What is a Feminist to do with Rational Choice? 450<br /> <i>Mariam Thalos</i></p> <p>25 Rationalism in the Philosophy of Donald Davidson 468<br /> <i>Richard N. Manning</i></p> <p>Index 488</p>
“Addressing topics from epistemology and metaphysics to ethics and psychology, it is the most compete treatment of the subject known to me.” “I can recommend this book without hesitation.” (<i>Philosophy In Review</i>) <p>"This companion is large indeed, but the size fits the largeness of its subjects; and it does succeed in its 25 articles in covering that subject . . . A job well done. Recommended." <i>(Choice)</i></p>
<b>Alan Nelson</b> is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a leading scholar of the great philosophical systems of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and has published widely on rationalism in the history of philosophy and in the philosophy of science.
<p>The rationalist impulse has guided Western philosophical thought from its beginnings in ancient Greece to the present day. In this <i>Companion</i>, a cast of established and rising stars in philosophy lays out the historical roots, the celebrated expressions, the controversies, and the contemporary determinations of rationalist thought.</p> <p>The volume opens with essays examining the nature of the rationalist impulse to philosophize, and the distinction between rationalism and empiricism. The focus of the remainder of the volume is on the “golden age” of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. However, this is set in the context of its historical development and the appearance of rationalist themes in recent thought. The material is organized chronologically, and various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented throughout.</p>
<p>“Addressing topics from epistemology and metaphysics to ethics and psychology, it is the most compete treatment of the subject known to me.” “I can recommend this book without hesitation.”</p> <p>(<i>Philosophy In Review</i>)</p> <p> </p> <p>"This companion is large indeed, but the size fits the largeness of its subjects; and it does succeed in its 25 articles in covering that subject . . . A job well done. Recommended."</p> <p><i>(Choice)</i></p>

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