Research Catalog

Title

Ideas and mechanism : essays on early modern philosophy / Margaret Dauler Wilson.

Author

Wilson, Margaret Dauler, 1939-1998

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.

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Details

Description

xx, 524 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Descartes, René, 1596-1650
• Berkeley, George, 1685-1753
• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
• Berkeley, George, 1685-1753
• Descartes, René, 1596-1650
• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716
• Descartes, René (1596-1650)
• Berkeley, George, (1685-1753)
• Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, (1646-1716; Freiherr von)
• Philosophy, Modern
• Metafysica
• Filosofie van de geest
• Philosophie moderne

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Skepticism without indubitability -- Descartes on sense and "resemblance" -- Descartes on the perception of primary qualities -- Descartes on the origin of sensation -- Descartes on the representationality of sensation -- Descartes; the epistemological argument for mind-body distinctness -- True and immutable natures -- Can I be the cause of my idea of the world? (Descartes on the infinite and indefinite) -- Objects, ideas, and "minds": comments on Spinoza's theory of mind -- Spinoza's causal axiom (Ethics I, axiom 4) -- Infinite understanding, Scientia intuitiva, and Ethics I.16 -- "For they do not agree in nature with us": Spinoza on the lower animals -- Superadded properties: the limits of mechanism in Locke -- Discussion: superadded properties: a reply to M.R. Ayers -- Did Berkeley completely misunderstand the basis of the primary-secondary quality distinction in Locke?
• Berkely on the mind-dependence of colors -- Berkeley and the essence of the corpuscularians -- The issue of "common sensibles" in Berkeley's New theory of vision -- Kant and "The dogmatic idealism of Berkeley" -- The "phenomenalisms" of Berkeley and Kant -- The phenomenalisms" of Leibniz and Berkeley -- Confused ideas -- Confused vs. distinct perception in Leibniz: consciousness, representation, and God's mind -- Leibniz and Locke on "first truths" -- Leibniz: self-consciousness and immortality in the Paris notes and after -- Leibniz and materialism -- Possible gods -- Leibniz's dynamics and contingency in nature -- Compossiblility and law -- History of philosophy in philosophy today; and the case of the sensible qualities -- Animal ideas.

ISBN

• 0691004706
• 9780691004709
• 0691004714
• 9780691004716

LCCN

98035153

OCLC

• ocm39614955
• 39614955
• SCSB-568571

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library