Wilson Ideas and Mechanism

Essays on Early Modern Philosophy
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-6498-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 75, 546 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Margaret Dauler

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Editions and Abbreviations

Ch. 1 Skepticism without Indubitability 3

Ch. 2 Descartes on Sense and "Resemblance" 10

Ch. 3 Descartes on the Perception of Primary Qualities 26

Ch. 4 Descartes on the Origin of Sensation 41

Ch. 5 Descartes on the Representationality of Sensation 69

Ch. 6 Descartes: The Epistemological Argument for Mind-Body Distinctness 84

Ch. 7 True and Immutable Natures 94

Ch. 8 Can I Be the Cause of My Idea of the World? (Descartes on the Infinite and Indefinite) 108

Ch. 9 Objects, Ideas, and "Minds": Comments on Spinoza's Theory of Mind 126

Ch. 10 Spinoza's Causal Axiom (Ethics I, Axiom 4) 141

Ch. 11 Infinite Understanding, Scientia Intuitiva, and Ethics I.16 166

Ch. 12 "For They Do Not Agree in Nature with Us": Spinoza on the Lower Animals 178

Ch. 13 Superadded Properties: The Limits of Mechanism in Locke 196

Ch. 14 Discussion: Superadded Properties: A Reply to M. R. Ayers 209

Ch. 15 Did Berkeley Completely Misunderstand the Basis of the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction in Locke? 215

Ch. 16 Berkeley on the Mind-Dependence of Colors 229

Ch. 17 Berkeley and the Essence of the Corpuscularians 243

Ch. 18 The Issue of "Common Sensibles" in Berkeley's New Theory of Vision 257

Ch. 19 Kant and "The Dogmatic Idealism of Berkeley" 276

Ch. 20 The "Phenomenalisms" of Berkeley and Kant 294

Ch. 21 The "Phenomenalisms" of Leibniz and Berkeley 306

Ch. 22 Confused Ideas 322

Ch. 23 Confused vs. Distinct Perception in Leibniz: Consciousness, Representation, and God's Mind 336

Ch. 24 Leibniz and Locke on "First Truths" 353

Ch. 25 Leibniz: Self-Consciousness and Immortality in the Paris Notes and After 373

Ch. 26 Leibniz and Materialsm 388

Ch. 27 Possible Gods 407

Ch. 28 Leibniz's Dynamics and Contingency in Nature 421

Ch. 29 Compossibility and Law 442

Ch. 30 History of Philosophy in Philosophy Today; and the Case of the Sensible Qualities 455

Ch. 31 Animal Ideas 495

Sources and Acknowledgments 513

Index 515