Knowledge in Modern Philosophy: The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History Volume III

Cover\nHalf Title\nSeries\nTitle\nCopyright\nContents\nContributors\nGeneral Editor’s Preface\nIntroduction\n	Notes\n	References\n1 Bacon\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Pars destruens: anticipations of nature and the idols of the mind\n	3. Pars construens: Bacon’s prescriptions for new natural histories and the inductive natural philosophy\n	4. Concluding remarks\n	Notes\n	References\n2 Gassendi and Hobbes\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Gassendi’s attacks on the Aristotelians and on Descartes\n	3. Gassendi’s middle way\n	4. Gassendi’s two criteria\n	5. Certainty and probability\n	6. Hobbes and scepticism\n	7. Hobbes, perception, and ‘the modern philosophy’\n	8. Knowledge and scientific knowledge\n	Notes\n	References\n3 Descartes\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Dreaming and the embodied self\n	3. Passivity of mind\n	4. Activation and self-discovery\n	5. Conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\n4 Spinoza\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Predecessors\n	3. Adequacy, truth, and clarity and distinctness\n	4. Kinds of knowledge\n	5. Conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\n5 Malebranche\n	1. Introduction: was Malebranche a rationalist metaphysician?\n	2. Malebranche and Hume\n	3. The axioms of metaphysics\n	4. Malebranche’s positive metaphysics 1: God and the soul\n	5. Malebranche’s positive metaphysics 2: the world of bodies\n	6. Conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\n6 Leibniz\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Leibniz’s theory of knowledge: the basics\n	3. Leibniz on substance\n	4. Determinism\n	5. Leibniz’s ‘rationalist empiricism’\n	6. Representation and anti-materialism\n	7. Knowledge and truth\n	8. Logic and the question of foundationalism\n	9. Conclusion\n	Notes\n	References\n7 Locke\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Background\n	3. Locke on principles\n	4. Locke on demonstration\n	5. Locke on the sciences\n	Notes\n	References\n8 Hume\n	Notes\n	References\n9 Kant\n	Notes\n	References\n10 German Idealism\n	1. Four problems from Kant’s critical project\n	2. Fichte’s transformation of transcendental idealism\n	3. Schelling’s attempt to unite Spinoza and Kant\n	4. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit\n	Notes\n	References\n11 Whewell, Mill, and the Birth of the Philosophy of Science\n	1. Introduction\n	2. The problem of the moral sciences\n	3. Whewell on science\n	4. Whewell on political economy\n	5. Mill versus Whewell\n	6. Induction\n	7. Deduction\n	8. The birth of the philosophy of science\n	Notes\n	References\nIndex