Notes on the Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy
1: Peter R. Anstey: Essences and Kinds
2: Tad M. Schmaltz: From Causes to Laws
3: Emily Grosholz: Space and Time
4: Helen Hattab: The Mechanical Philosophy
5: Justin E. H. Smith: Machines, Souls, and Vital Principles
Part II: The Mind, the Passions, and Aesthetics
6: R. W. Serjeantson: The Soul
7: Pauline Phemister: Ideas
8: Philippe Hamou: Qualities and Sensory Perception
9: Gabor Boros: The Passions
10: Alexander Rueger: Aesthetics
Part III: Epistemology, Logic, Mathematics and Language
11: José R. Maia Neto: Sceptisism
12: Desmond M. Clarke: Hypotheses
13: Jaap Maat: Language and Semiotics
14: Mary Tiles: Form, Reason, and Method
15: Jean-François Gauvin: Instruments of Knowledge
16: Stephen Gaukroger: Picturability and Mathematical Ideals of
Knowledge
Part IV: Ethics and Political Philosophy
17: P. J. E. Kail: Virtue and Vice
18: Stephen Darwall: Egoism and Morality
19: Catherine Wilson: Realism and Relativism in Ethics
20: Paul Russell: The Free Will Problem
21: Eileen O'Neill: The Equality of Men and Women
22: Ian Hunter: Natural Law as Political Philosophy
23: Ursula Goldenbaum: Sovereignty and Obedience
Part V: Religion
24: Steven Nadler: Conceptions of God
25: Desmond M. Clarke: The Epistemology of Religious Belief
26: Philip Milton: Religious Toleration
Desmond M. Clarke is Professor (emeritus) of Philosophy at
University College Cork, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
He is general editor (with Karl Ameriks) of Cambridge Texts in the
History of Philosophy; his recent monographs include Descartes's
Theory of Mind (OUP, 2003) and Descartes: A Biography (CUP, 2006).
His translations include a two-volume edition of Descartes for
Penguin. Catherine Wilson is Regius Professor of Moral
Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of
Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (OUP, 2008), Descartes's
Meditations: An Introduction (CUP, 2003), and the recently
reprinted The Invisible World: Early
Modern Philosophy and the Invention of the Microscope (Princeton
2009). She was editor of History of Philosophy Quarterly from 1998
to 2003.
`a wonderful guide to the general contours of philosophical
thinking in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, valuable for
advanced undergraduates through to seasoned scholars of early
modern thought ... There are many excellent essays that will bear
intellectual fruit through multiple readings.'
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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