A Companion to Rationalism

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Alan Nelson
John Wiley & Sons, Oct 1, 2012 - Philosophy - 528 pages

This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day.

  • Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers
  • Critically analyses the concept of rationalism
  • Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
  • Also covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought
  • Organised chronologically
  • Various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented
 

Contents

Cover
The Rationalist Impulse
The Rationalist Conception of Substance
Rationalist Theories of Sense Perception
Perception
Rationalism and Education
Platos Rationalistic Method
Rationalism in Jewish Philosophy
Leibniz on Shape and the Cartesian
Leibniz on Modality Cognition
Rationalist Moral Philosophy
Spinoza Leibniz and the Rationalist
Kant and the Two Dogmas of Rationalism
References and Further Reading
Rationalist Elements of TwentiethCentury
Notes

Early Modern Critiques of Rationalist
Rationalism and Method
Cartesian Imaginations The Method
Descartes Rationalist Epistemology
Notes
The Role of the Imagination in Rationalist
Idealism and Cartesian Motion
Rationalism in Science
Rational Decision Making Descriptive
What is a Feminist to do with Rational
Rationalism in the Philosophy of Donald
Index
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About the author (2012)

Alan Nelson 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.

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