Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses provides an in-depth, engaging introduction to important issues in modern philosophy. It presents 13 key interpretive debates to students, and ranges in coverage from Descartes' Meditations to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

Debates include:

Did Descartes have a developed and consistent view about how the mind interacts with the body?
Was Leibniz an idealist, or did he believe in corporeal substances?
What is Locke's theory of personal identity?
Could there be a Berkeleian metaphysics without God?
Did Hume believe in causal powers?
What is Kant's transcendental idealism?

Each of the thirteen debates consists of a well known article or book chapter from a living philosopher, followed by a new response from a different scholar, specially commissioned for this volume. Every debate is prefaced by an introduction written for those coming upon the debates for the first time and followed by an annotated list for further reading. The volume starts with an introduction that explains the importance and relevance of the modern period and its key debates to philosophy and ends with a glossary that covers terms from both the modern period and the study of the history of philosophy in general.

Debates in Modern Philosophy will help students evaluate different interpretations of key texts from modern philosophy, and provide a model for constructing their own positions in these debates.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2013

ISBN

9781135136598

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Philosophy History & Theory

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Timeline
Part I: The Cartesian Circle
Part II: Descartes on Mind-Body Interaction
Part III: Making Sense of Spinoza’s Ethics
Part IV: The Appeal of Occasionalism
Part V: Did Leibniz Believe in Corporeal Substances?
Part VI: The Role of Mechanism in Locke’s Essay
Part VII: Locke on Personal Identity
Part VIII: Idealism Without God
Part IX: Hume on Causation
Part X: Hume on Miracles
Part XI: Defending the Synthetic A Priori
Part XII: What Is Transcendental Idealism?
Part XIII: Why Read the History of Philosophy?
Bibliography
Index