New Essays on the Rationalists.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (410 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Matter and Substance -- 1 Space and Subtle Matter in Descartes's Metaphysics -- 2 Descartes on Nothing in Particular -- 3 "If a Body Meet a Body": Descartes on Body-Body Causation -- 4 Descartes's Extended Substances -- 5 Spinoza's Extended Substance: Cartesian and Leibnizian Reflections -- 6 Leibniz's Constructivism and Infinitely Folded Matter -- 7 Locke and Leibniz and the Debate over Species -- Part Two: Freedom and Necessity -- 8 Descartes on Spontaneity, Indifference, and Alternatives -- 9 The Range of Leibnizian Compatibilism -- 10 The Necessity of Finite Modes and Geometrical Containment in Spinoza's Metaphysics -- 11 Spinoza's Necessitarianism Reconsidered -- Part Three: Mind and Consciousness -- 12 A Spectator at the Theater of the World -- 13 Distinctness -- 14 Causation and Similarity in Descartes -- 15 Teleology in Spinoza and Early Modern Rationalism -- 16 "For They Do Not Agree in Nature with Us": Spinoza on the Lower Animals -- 17 Leibniz on Consciousness and Self-consciousness -- 18 The Illusory Nature of Leibniz's System -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- W.