Ideas, Mental Faculties and Method

The Logic of Ideas of Descartes and Locke and Its Reception in the Dutch Republic, 1630-1750
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-13716-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 125, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

The seventeenth century was a period of dramatic change in the field of philosophy. In logic, traditional Aristotelian textbooks were transformed by the emergence of an alternative ‘logic of ideas’. This new logic was developed by Descartes and Locke, its main representatives, and by Arnauld and Malebranche. The present study starts with a fresh and detailed analysis of the logic of ideas. The author then puts the fruitfulness of his characterization of the new logic to the test, by studying its reception in the eclectic intellectual environment of the Dutch Republic between 1690 and 1750. This is the first comprehensive study of the early modern logic of ideas. It is also a profound contribution to our understanding of the interaction between Aristotelianism and new philosophy and between rationalism and empiricism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schuurman, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations

1. Introduction
2. The Logic of Ideas
3. Structure of the New Logic
4. The Dutch Context
5. Jean le Clerc: Lockean Empiricism in Textbook Format (1692)
6. Jean-Pierre de Crousaz: Accommodation between Old and New Logic (1725)
7. Nicolaus Engelhard’s Wolffianism (1732)
8. Willem Jacob ’s Gravesande’s Philosophical Defence of Newtonianism (1736)
9. Petrus van Musschenbroek: Logic and Natural Science Part Ways (1748)
10. Conclusion: Dutch Eclectic Logic, 1690–1750

Bibliography
Index of names

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Schuurman, Ph.D. in Philosophy (2000), Keele University, has published numerous articles on René Descartes and John Locke and has recently co-edited a Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers (2 vols).