Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-8911-8 • Paperback • October 1999 • $54.00 • (£42.00)
Derk Pereboom is professor of philosophy at the University of Vermont.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 I DESCARTES
Chapter 4 1. The Method of Doubt
Chapter 5 2. Descartes' Case for Dualism
Chapter 6 3. The Unity of Descartes' Man
Chapter 7 4. How God Causes Motion: Descartes, Divine Sustenance, and Occasionalism
Part 8 II SPINOZA
Chapter 9 5. Spinoza's Necessitarianism
Chapter 10 6. On the Relationship Between Mode and Substance in Spinoza's Metaphysics
Chapter 11 7. Spinoza's Argument for the Identity Theory
Chapter 12 8. Spinoza's Causal Axiom (Ethics I, Axiom 4)
Part 13 III LEIBNIZ
Chapter 14 9. Phenomenalism and Corporeal Substance in Leibniz
Chapter 15 10. Leibniz and Spinoza on Substance and Mode
Chapter 16 11. Natures, Laws, and Miracles: The Roots of Leibniz's Critique of Occasionalism
Chapter 17 12. Leibniz's Theory of Relations
Part 18 IV MALEBRANCHE
Chapter 19 13. Occasionalism and General Will in Malebranche
Chapter 20 Bibliography
Chapter 21 Authors
—Brings together in one volume essays on the four most discussed thinkers in the rationalist movement—Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Malebranche
—Essays address the topics in metaphysics and epistemology that figure most prominently in contemporarywork on these philosophers
—Contributors are all well-known philosophers
—Suitable for survey courses on rationalism