Title The battle of the gods and giants : the legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715 / Thomas M. Lennon

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1993] ©1993

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Description xi, 420 pages ; 24 cm Series Studies in intellectual history and the history of philosophy. Contents Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for The battle of the gods and giants : the legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715 / Thomas M. Lennon. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Preface Note on Documentation I The Philosophical Terrain 3 1 The Gassendist Failure 3 2 The Gassendist Success 26 3 The Interminable Battle 34 4 Other Wars 52 II The Giants of the Seventeenth Century 63 5 Dramatis Personae 63 6 Mind versus Flesh 106 7 Gassendist Theories of Space: Apotheosis and Annihilation 117 8 Physical and Metaphysical Atomism 137 III Locke: Gassendist Anti-Cartesian 149 9 Locke and Gassendi 149 10 Locke and Descartes 163 11 Enthusiasm 169 IV The Gods of the Seventeenth Century 191 12 Descartes's Idealism 191 13 Malebranche's Realism 210 14 Malebranche's Idealism 229 V Ideas and Representation 240 15 Two Patterns of Ideas 240 16 Arguments for Representationalism 248 17 Two Versions of the Causal Argument 255 VI The Untouchable and the Uncuttable 274 18 Space and Solidity 276 19 Simple and Complex Ideas 288 20 Primary and Secondary Qualities 298 21 Powers 304 22 Matter and Creation 309 23 The Bestial Soul 314 VII Innateness, Abstraction, and Essences 334 24 Innateness 334 25 Essences and Abstraction 340 26 The Polemic with Stillingfleet 354 VIII Philosophy and the Historiography of Philosophy 367 27 Dissimulation and Meaning 368 28 What Locke Said 374 29 Two Camps of Historians 378 30 History and Interpretation 383 Works Cited 393 Index 411 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655, Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650, Locke, John, 1632-1704 Analysis Philosophy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [393]-410) and index Subject Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655. Locke, John, 1632-1704. Philosophy, British -- 17th century. Philosophy, French -- 17th century. SUBJECT France -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051439 Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056854 LC no. 92026088 ISBN 0691074003 (alk. paper)

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