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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Serie: This is Philosophy
- Sprache: Englisch
Provides students and general readers with a basic understanding of the central concepts, issues, and thinkers of the early modern era of philosophy
Is there a world that exists apart from ourselves? If an external world exists, what is its nature?
Can an external world based on evidence from our sense perception be known? How do such questions arise? Is it even possible for them to be answered? This is Modern Philosophy: An Introduction surveys how philosophers from the late sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century investigated central metaphysical and epistemological issues.
Focusing on six key philosophers, this accessible volume provides readers with a solid and balanced appreciation of how philosophy was done in the Modern period. Each chapter explores the views of a particular thinker—René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, George Berkeley, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Lady Mary Shepherd—with special attention paid to their engagement with ‘The Problem of the External World.’ Throughout the book, readers are invited to consider related philosophical problems and doctrines, such as transcendental idealism, mind-body dualism, and skepticism.
- Introduces a range of philosophical concepts, including materialism, idealism, rationalism, and empiricism
- Discusses how the philosophical views from each of the philosophers covered are similar and different
- Addresses the views of other important thinkers such as John Locke and Adam Smith
- Features an epilogue that helps readers locate other important philosophers from different historical periods
- Provides links to high-quality online editions and translations of primary texts that are freely available to students
Part of Wiley-Blackwell’s popular This Is Philosophy series, This is Modern Philosophy: An Introduction is an invaluable resource for undergraduate students in Early Modern philosophy courses, graduate philosophy students looking to refresh their knowledge, and general readers looking for an easy-to-read introduction to the subject.
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Table of Contents
COVER
SERIES PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
I.1 Knowledge as
Scientia
I.2 Ideas, Propositions, and Beliefs
I.3 The idea of a Modern Philosophy Course
I.4 Rationalism and Empiricism
I.5 Some Other “isms” of the Period
I.6 The Problem of the External World
1 RENÉ DESCARTES
1.1 Descartes's First Principle
1.2 Preliminaries on Ideas and the Ontology
1.3 Clarity and Distinctness: A Model Based on Simple Natures
1.4 The Idea of the Infinite Being: A Proof for God's existence
1.5 Why God, Creator of Descartes's Mind, Cannot be Understood as Being a Deceiver
1.6 The Problem of the External World Continued: The Case for a Material World
Reference
Readings
Primary Descartes Readings
Secondary Readings
2 THOMAS HOBBES
2.1 Hobbes's Materialism
2.2 Hobbes's View of Mind
2.3 Concept‐Pairs
2.4 A Body Cannot be the Origin of Its Own Motion
2.5 A Proof for the Existence of an External World
Reference
Readings
Primary Hobbes Readings
Secondary Reading
3 GEORGE BERKELEY
3.1 Berkeley's Rejection of a Material World
3.2 Abstraction versus Exclusion
3.3 Objects are Collections of Ideas
3.4 The Problem of the External World Answered: The Omni‐perceiver
3.5 Possible Common Ground
Readings
Primary Berkeley Readings
Secondary Reading
4 DAVID HUME
4.1 Hume on Impressions and Ideas
4.2 The Idea of Cause and Effect
4.3 Object and Existence
4.4 Unity and Identity
4.5 Constancy, Coherence, Continued Existence, and Distinct Existence
Readings
Primary Hume Readings
Secondary Reading
5 IMMANUEL KANT
5.1 Kant’s Critical Period
5.2 Knowledge: Preliminaries
5.3 Transcendental Philosophy
5.4 Two Distinctions and the Category of Synthetic
a priori
Propositions
5.5 The External World
References
Readings
Primary Kant Reading
Secondary Readings
6 LADY MARY SHEPHERD
6.1 Cause and Effect, and a Proof of the External World
6.2 Hume and The Problem of the External World
6.3 Consciousness and Sensation
6.4 A Commonsense Reading
References
Readings
Primary Shepherd Readings
Secondary Reading
EPILOGUE
E.1 The Analogy of the Divided Line
INDEX
END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
List of Tables
Chapter 1
Table 1.1 Truth‐table for conditionals.
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1
Figure 1.1 Correspondence Theory of Truth.
Figure 1.2 The Finite Presupposes the Infinite.
Chapter 5
Figure 5.1 Table of the Empirical and Transcendental versions of the Idealit...
Chapter 6
Figure 6.1 The anatomy of a function.
EPILOGUE
Figure E.1 The divided line.
Figure E.2 Plato and Kant compared, continued.
Figure E.3 Plato and Kant compared, continued.
Figure E.4 Plato and Kant compared, continued.
Guide
COVER PAGE
SERIES PAGE
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BEGIN READING
EPILOGUE
INDEX
WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
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THIS IS MODERN PHILOSOPHY
AN INTRODUCTION
KURT SMITH
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I would like to thank Professor Steven Hales, who first approached me about doing this project. He is the editor of the series in which this book is now a member, but equally importantly, he is a respected, amazing colleague. I thank Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania for granting me Sabbatical to do this project. I would also like to thank Professor Daniel Garber, not only for graciously providing me the opportunity to spend my sabbatical at Princeton University as a visiting scholar, but for humoring me when I would propose yet some new plan for this book when I first set out to write it. I would also like to thank Professors Martha Bolton, Margaret Atherton, Deborah Boyle, David Cunning, and Kristopher Philips for pointing the way to Lady Mary Shepherd. I should thank my students for giving me the opportunity to learn how to teach this material. It was always with them in mind that I wrote this book. And, I thank the many editors at Blackwell Wiley for their help and patience.
