A Companion to Rationalism

Copyright © 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

A Companion to Rationalism

Editor(s): Alan Nelson

Published Online: 26 NOV 2007

Print ISBN: 9781405109093

Online ISBN: 9780470996904

DOI: 10.1002/9780470996904

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This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day.

  • Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers
  • Critically analyses the concept of rationalism
  • Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
  • Also covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought
  • Organised chronologically
  • Various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented

Table of contents

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      Frontmatter (pages i–xvi)

  2. Part I: The Core of Rationalism

    1. Chapter 1

      The Rationalist Impulse (pages 1–11)

      Alan Nelson

    2. Chapter 2

      The Rationalist Conception of Substance (pages 12–30)

      Thomas M. Lennon

    3. Chapter 3

      Rationalist Theories of Sense Perception and Mind–Body Relation (pages 31–60)

      Gary Hatfield

    4. Chapter 4

      Rationalism and Education (pages 61–81)

      David Cunning

  3. Part II: The Historical Background

    1. Chapter 5

      Plato's Rationalistic Method (pages 85–99)

      Hugh H. Benson

    2. Chapter 6

      Rationalism in Jewish Philosophy (pages 100–118)

      Steven Nadler

    3. Chapter 7

      Early Modern Critiques of Rationalist Psychology (pages 119–135)

      Antonia LoLordo

    4. Chapter 8

      Rationalism and Method (pages 137–155)

      Matthew J. Kisner

    5. Chapter 9

      Cartesian Imaginations: The Method and Passions of Imagining (pages 156–176)

      Dennis L. Sepper

  4. Part III: The Heyday of Rationalism

    1. Chapter 10

      Descartes' Rationalist Epistemology (pages 179–204)

      Lex Newman

    2. Chapter 11

      Rationalism and Representation (pages 206–223)

      Kurt Smith

    3. Chapter 12

      The Role of the Imagination in Rationalist Philosophies of Mathematics (pages 224–249)

      Lawrence Nolan

    4. Chapter 13

      Idealism and Cartesian Motion (pages 250–261)

      Alice Sowaal

    5. Chapter 14

      Leibniz on Shape and the Cartesian Conception of Body (pages 262–281)

      Timothy Crockett

    6. Chapter 15

      Leibniz on Modality, Cognition, and Expression (pages 282–301)

      Alan Nelson

    7. Chapter 16

      Rationalist Moral Philosophy (pages 302–321)

      Andrew Youpa

    8. Chapter 17

      Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Rationalist Reconceptions of Imagination (pages 322–342)

      Dennis L. Sepper

    9. Chapter 18

      Kant and the Two Dogmas of Rationalism (pages 343–359)

      Henry E. Allison

  5. Part IV: Rationalist Themes in Contemporary Philosophy

    1. Chapter 19

      Rationalism in the Phenomenological Tradition (pages 363–378)

      David Woodruff Smith

    2. Chapter 20

      Rationalist Elements of Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy (pages 379–398)

      Paul Livingston

    3. Chapter 21

      Proust and the Rationalist Conception of the Self (pages 399–407)

      Alan Nelson

    4. Chapter 22

      Rationalism in Science (pages 408–424)

      David Stump

    5. Chapter 23

      Rational Decision Making: Descriptive, Prescriptive, or Explanatory? (pages 425–449)

      Jonathan Michael Kaplan

    6. Chapter 24

      What is a Feminist to do with Rational Choice? (pages 450–467)

      Mariam Thalos

    7. Chapter 25

      Rationalism in the Philosophy of Donald Davidson (pages 468–487)

      Richard N. Manning

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      Index (pages 488–507)

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