Early Modern Philosophy

John Grey is Teaching Professor in Philosophy at Michigan State University, USA.Jonathan Head is Lecturer in Philosophy at Keele University, UK.

• ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Understanding Human Nature1 Early Modern Dualism: René Descartes, Henry More, and Anton Wilhelm Amo 2 The Mind-Body Problem: René Descartes and Elisabeth of Bohemia 3 Idealist Responses: Anne Conway and Gottfried Leibniz 4 Materialist Responses: Thomas Hobbes and Margaret Cavendish Part II Sociability and Education5 The Nature of Love: John Norris, Mary Astell, and Damaris Masham 6 The Nature of Morality: John Locke and Catharine Trotter Cockburn 7 The Nature of Education: Anna van Schurman and Mary Astell 8 Sympathy and Morality: Sophie de Grouchy and David Hume 9 The Debate about Slavery: Jacobus Capitein and Ottobah Cugoano Part III Mind and Reality10 God and World: Baruch Spinoza and George Berkeley 11 The Nature of Space: Samuel Clarke and Émilie du Châtelet 12 The Nature of Causation: David Hume and Thomas Reid 13 A Transcendental Approach: Mary Shepherd and Immanuel Kant ConclusionNotes Glossary Index

Early Modern Philosophy offers a rich and impressive introduction to its period, putting a diverse array of philosophers and their primary texts into conversation. The accompanying explanations are straightforward and insightful - to scholars and students alike, this book will be a boon.