The Rationalists Critical Essays on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz

by Pereboom, Derk; Adams, Robert M.; Broughton, Janet; Carriero, John; Rocca, Michael Della; Garber, Daniel; Garrett, Don; Hoffman, Paul G.; Mercer, Christia; Nadler, Steven; Rozemond, Marleen; Rutherford, Donald; Wilson, Margaret D.; Wong, David

• ISBN13: 9780847689118
• ISBN10: 0847689115
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-20
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This book brings together thirteen articles on the most discussed thinkers in the rationalist movement: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Malebranche. These articles address the topics in metaphysics and epistemology that figure most prominently in contemporary work on these philosophers. The articles have all been produced since 1980, and their authors are among the most respected in the field.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Acknowledgments	xvii
Descartes
The Method of Doubt	1	(18)
Janet Braughton
Descartes's Case for Dualism	19	(40)
Marleen Rozemond
The Unity of Descartes's Man	59	(30)
Paul Hoffman
How God Causes Motion: Descartes, Divine Sustenance, and Occasionalism	89	(14)
Daniel Garber
Spinoza
Spinoza's Necessitarianism	103	(28)
Don Garrett
On the Relationship between Mode and Substance in Spinoza's Metaphysics	131	(34)
John Carriero
Spinoza's Argument for the Identity Theory	165	(28)
Michael Della Rocca
Spinoza's Causal Axiom (Ethics I, Axiom 4)	193	(30)
Margaret D. Wilson
Leibniz
Phenomenalism and Corporeal Substance in Leibniz	223	(50)
Robert Merrihew Adams
Leibniz and Spinoza on Substance and Mode	273	(28)
Christia Mercer
Natures, Laws, and Miracles: The Roots of Leibniz's Critique of Occasionalism	301	(26)
Donald P. Rutherford
Leibniz's Theory of Relations	327	(16)
David Wong
Malebranche
Occasionalism and General Will in Malebranche	343	(20)
Steven Nadler
Bibliography	363	(6)
Authors	369