This volume covers a period of three hundred and fifty years, from the middle of the fourteenth century to the early years of the eighteenth century: the birth of modern philosophy.
This volume covers a period of three hundred and fifty years, from the middle of the fourteenth century to the early years of the eighteenth century: the birth of modern philosophy.
General editors' prefaceNotes on contributorsChronologyIntroduction11The philosophy of the Italian Renaissance162Renaissance philosophy outside Italy703Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes1044Francis Bacon and man's two-faced kingdom1405Descartes: methodology1676Descartes: metaphysics and the philosophy of mind2017Seventeenth-century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes2358Spinoza: metaphysics and knowledge2739The moral and political philosophy of Spinoza31310Occasionalism34911Leibniz: truth, knowledge and metaphysics384Glossary424Index of names436Index of subjects440