Philosophy 321: History of Modern Western Philosophy

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Innovation and orthodoxy in early modern philosophy / Donald Rutherford --
Knowledge, evidence, and method / Stephen Gaukroger --
From natural philosophy to natural science / Dennis Des Chene --
Metaphysics / Nicholas Jolley --
The science of mind / Tad Schmaltz --
Language and logic / Michael Losonsky --
The passions and the good life / Susan James --
The foundations of morality : virtue, law, and obligation / Stephen Darwall --
Theories of the state / A. John Simmons --
Theology and the God of the philosophers / Thomas M. Lennon --
Scholastic schools and early modern philosophy / M.W.F. Stone --
Toward enlightenment : Kant and the sources of darkness / J.B. Schneewind.

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vol. 1. Preface / Daniel Garber and Michael Ayers --
Introduction / Michael Ayers and Daniel Garber --
I. The institutional setting / Richard Tuck --
The intellectual setting / Stephen Menn --
European philosophical responses to non-European culture: China / D.E. Mungello --
II. Logic, language, and abstract objects --
Logic in the seventeenth century: preliminary remarks and the constituents of the proposition / Gabriel Nuchelmans --
Proposition and judgement / Gabriel Nuchelmans --
Deductive reasoning / Gabriel Nuchelmans --
Method and the study of nature / Peter Dear --
Universals, essences, and abstract entities / Martha Bolton --
Individuation / Udo Thiel --
III. God --
The idea of God / Jean-Luc Marion --
Proofs of the existence of God / Jean-Robert Armogathe --
The Cartesian dialectic of creation / Thomas M. Lennon --
The relation between theology and philosophy / Nicholas Jolley --
The religious background of seventeenth-century philosophy / Richard Popkin --
IV. Body and the physical world --
The scholastic background / Roger Ariew and Alan Gabbey --
The occultist tradition and its critics / Brian Copenhaver --
Doctrines of explanation in late scholasticism and in the mechanical philosophy / Steven Nadler --
New doctrines of body and its powers, place, and space / Daniel Garber, John Henry, Lynn Joy, and Alan Gabbey --
Knowledge of the existence of body / Charles McCracken --
New doctrines of motion / Alan Gabbey --
Laws of nature / J.R. Milton --
The mathematical realm of nature / Michael Mahoney --
V. Spirit --
Soul and mind: life and thought in the seventeenth century / Daniel Garber --
Knowledge of the soul / Charles McCracken --
Mind-body problems / Daniel Garber and Margaret Wilson --
Personal identity / Udo Thiel --
The passions in metaphysics and the theory of action / Susan James. vol. 2. VI. The understanding --
The cognitive faculties / Gary Hatfield --
Theories of knowledge and belief / Michael Ayers --
Ideas and objective being / Michael Ayers --
Probability and evidence / Lorraine Daston --
Skepticism / Charles Larmore --
VII. Will, action, and moral philosophy --
Determinism and human freedom / Robert Sleigh, Vere Chappell, and Michael Della Rocca --
Conceptions of moral philosophy / Jill Kraye --
Divine/natural law theories in ethics / Knud Haakonssen --
Reason, the passions, and the good life / Susan James.

This book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its aim is to set Kant's still influential ethics in its historical context by showing in detail what the central questions in moral philosophy were for him and how he arrived at his own distinctive ethical views. In its range, its analyses of many philosophers not usually considered in histories of ethics, and its discussions of the interweaving of religious and political concerns with moral philosophy, this is an unprecedented account of the developments that led up to Kant's ethics. Extensive quotations allow the reader to understand the philosophy through the vocabularies that the philosophers themselves used.

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Introduction: Ideas, Representation, and Realism --
1. Gibson's Realism and Valberg's Puzzle --
2. The Term 'Idea' in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy --
3. Mirrors and Veils, Thoughts and Things: The Epistemological Problematic --
4. The Language of Presence to the Mind --
5. Ideas as Images --
6. Ideas as the Very Things Themselves --
7. Kant's Combination of Idealism and Realism --
8. The Semantic Relation --
Conclusion: The Epistemic Shift.

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Contents: The philosophy of the Italian Renaissance / Jill Kraye --
Renaissance philosophy outside Italy / Stuart Brown --
Science and mathematics from the Renaissance to Descartes / George Molland --
Francis Bacon and man's two-faced kingdom / Antonio Pérez-Ramos --
Descartes / Stephen Gaukroger --
Descartes / John Cottingham --
Seventeenth-century materialism / T. Sorell --
Spinoza / G.H.R. Parkinson --
The moral and political philosophy of Spinoza / Hans W. Blom --
Occasionalism / Daisie Radner --
Leibniz / Nicholas Jolley.

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From Leibniz to Kant / Lewis White Beck --
Kant's Copernican revolution / Daniel Bonevac --
Kant's moral and political philosophy / Don Becker --
Kant : Critique of judgement / Patrick Gardiner --
Fichte and Schelling : the Jena period / Daniel Breazeale --
Hegel's Phenomenology of spirit / Robert C. Solomon --
Hegel's logic and philosophy of mind / Willem deVries --
Hegel, spirit, and politics / Leo Rauch --
The young Hegelians, Feuerbach, and Marx / Robert Nola --
Arthur Schopenhauer / Kathleen M. Higgins --
Kierkegaard's speculative despair / Judith Butler.