Roger Woolhouse

Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz

The Concept of Substance in Seventeenth Century Metaphysics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'This book is both a fine introduction to the metaphysics of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz and a rich, wide-ranging study of the interaction between physics and metaphysics in the seventeenth century.' - Kenneth P Winkler, Wellesley College

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781138138940
• ISBN-10: 1138138940
• Artikelnr.: 45052120

Autorenporträt

Woolhouse, Roger

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Editions and abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Descartes and Substance
3. Spinoza and Substance
4. Leibniz and Substance
5. Descartes
Spinoza
and Leibniz
and Extended Substance
6. Descartes
Spinoza
and Leibniz
and the Mechanics of Extended Substance
7. Causation
Occasionalism and Force
8. Descartes
Spinoza
and Leibniz
and Thinking Substance
9. Extended Substance and Thinking Substance related: 'the nature of the union between body and mind'
10. Uncreated and Created Substance: God and the World
Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

'...intelligent and often subtle introduction to rationalist metaphysics...a pleasure to read and demonstrates command of a great wealth of material.' - The Philosophical Review