Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume I

by Garber, Daniel; Nadler, Steven

• ISBN13: 9780199267910
• ISBN10: 019926791X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Oxford University Press is proud to announce an annual volume presenting a selection of the best new work in the history of philosophy.Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy will focus on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the period that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It will also publish papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they areimportant in illuminating early modern thought. The core of the subject matter will, of course, be philosophy and its history. But the volume's papers will reflect the fact that philosophy in this period was much broader in scope that it is now taken to be, and included a great deal of whatcurrently belongs to the natural sciences: so the notion of 'philosophy' will be interpreted rather broadly. Furthermore, philosophy in the period was closely connected with other disciplines, such as theology, and with larger questions of social, political, and religious history. Again, whilemaintaining a focus on philosophy, the volumes will also include articles that examine the larger intellectual, social, and political context of early modern philosophy.The articles in OSEMP will be of importance to specialists within the discipline, but the editors also intend that they should appeal to a larger audience of philosophers, intellectual historians, and others who are interested in the development of modern thought.

Table of Contents

Note from the Editors	vi
Daniel Garber
Steven Nadler
Abbreviations	viii
Conflicting Causalities: The Jesuits, their Opponents, and Descartes on the Causality of the Efficient Cause	1	(22)
Helen Hattab
The Cartesian God and the Eternal Truths	23	(22)
Gregory Walski
What Do the Expressions of the Passions Tell Us?	45	(22)
Lisa Shapiro
The First Condemnation of Descartes's CEuvres: Some Unpublished Documents from the Vatican Archives	67	(44)
Jean-Robert Armogathe
Vincent Carraud
Justice and Law in Hobbes	111	(28)
Michael J. Green
The Circle of Adequate Knowledge: Notes on Reason and Intuition in Spinoza	139	(26)
Syliane Malinowski-Charles
False Enemies: Malebranche, Leibniz, and the Best of All Possible Worlds	165	(18)
Emanuela Scribano
The Enigma of Leibniz's Atomism	183	(46)
Richard Arthur
Answering Bayle's Question: Religious Belief in the Moral Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment	229	(26)
James A. Harris
Index of Names	255