French Philosophy, 1572-1675 (The Oxford History of Philosophy)

Cover\nFrench Philosophy, 1572–1675\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nAcknowledgements\nPreface\nA Note on References\nChapter 1: Philosophy in Context\n	1.1 Introduction\n	1.2 French Politics from Charles IX to Louis XIV\n	1.3 The Religious Context\n	1.4 Philosophy Teaching in France\n	1.5 Censorship\n	1.6 French Academies and Conferences\n	1.7 Conclusion\nChapter 2: Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge\n	2.1 Introduction\n	2.2 Montaigne, Charron, and French Pyrrhonism\n	2.3 Empirical Knowledge: Sanches and Gassendi\n	2.4 Scepticism and Libertinism\n	2.5 Arguments against Scepticism\n	2.6 Descartes and Metaphysics\n	2.7 Conclusion\nChapter 3: Faith and Reason\n	3.1 Introduction\n	3.2 Religious Belief\n	3.3 Interpreting Biblical Texts\n	3.4 Conceiving God\n	3.5 Transubstantiation: Descartes and Amyraut\n	3.6 Pascal: Wagering for Faith\n	3.7 Conclusion\nChapter 4: Natural Philosophy\n	4.1 Introduction\n	4.2 Hypotheses\n	4.3 Structural Explanation\n	4.4 Confirmation\n	4.5 Pascal’s Crucial Experiment\n	4.6 The Certainty of Hypotheses\n	4.7 Cartesian Natural Philosophy\n	4.8 Conclusion\nChapter 5: Theories of the Human Mind\n	5.1 Introduction\n	5.2 The Soul in Scholastic Physics\n	5.3 Divine Conservation of Souls: Silhon\n	5.4 Gassendi’s Theory\n	5.5 Descartes’s Theory of Mind\n	5.6 Consciousness\n	5.7 Substance Dualism\n	5.8 Conclusion\nChapter 6: Ethics: The Good Life and the Moral Law\n	6.1 Introduction\n	6.2 Natural Law\n	6.3 Stoic Ethics and the Will\n	6.4 Passions as Moral Guides: La Chambre\n	6.5 Descartes and the Will\n	6.6 Epicureanism: Pierre Gassendi\n	6.7 Ethics for Women\n	6.8 Blaise Pascal: Ethics for a Corrupt Nature\n	6.9 Justifying Ethical Norms\nChapter 7: Political Philosophy: The Source and Limits of State Authority\n	7.1 Introduction\n	7.2 Reformation Political Theory\n	7.3 François Hotman and Théodore de Bèze\n	7.4 Jean Bodin: Absolute Sovereignty\n	7.5 The Vindiciae contra Tyrannos\n	7.6 Natural Law\n	7.7 Biblical Politics in the Seventeenth Century\n	7.8 Religious Toleration\nChapter 8: The Equality of the Sexes\n	8.1 Introduction\n	8.2 Marie de Gournay\n	8.3 Women’s Education: Van Schurman\n	8.4 Poulain de la Barre\n	8.5 Conclusion: Equality and Difference\nAfterword\nAppendix: Brief Biographies\nBibliography\n	Primary Sources\n	Secondary Literature\nIndex