Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IV

First published 1993
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Routledge History of Philosophy.—Vol. 4:
Renaissance and Seventeenth-century
Rationalism
I. Parkinson, G.H.R.
190.9
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The Renaissance and seventeenth-century rationalism/edited by G.H.R.
Parkinson.
p. cm. —(Routledge history of philosophy; v. 4)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents: The philosophy of the Italian Renaissance/Jill Kraye—Renaissance
philosophy outside Italy/Stuart Brown—Science and mathematics from the
Renaissance to Descartes/George Molland—Francis Bacon and man’s two-faced
kingdom/Antonio Pérez-Ramos—Descartes, methodology/Stephen Gaukroger
—Descartes, metaphysics and philosophy of mind/John Cottingham—
Seventeenth century materialism/T.Sorell—Spinoza, metaphysics and
knowledge/G.H.R.Parkinson—The moral and political philosophy of
Spinoza/Hans W.Blom—Occasionalism/Daisie Radner—Leibniz/Nicholas
Jolley.