The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715

Princeton University Press (1993)
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1995, 2014

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9781400863396   1400863392   0691074003   0691633916   9780691604909   0691604908

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10.2307/2185984
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Contents.  (pages vii-viii)Thomas M. Lennon
Note on Documentation.  (pages xiii-xiv)Thomas M. Lennon
Preface.  (pages ix-xii)Thomas M. Lennon
CHAPTER I. The Philosophical Terrain.  (pages 1-62)Thomas M. Lennon
CHAPTER II. The Giants of the Seventeenth Century.  (pages 63-148)Thomas M. Lennon
Chapter III. Locke: Gassendist anti-cartesian.  (pages 149-190)Thomas M. Lennon
CHAPTER IV. The Gods of the Seventeenth Century.  (pages 191-239)Thomas M. Lennon
CHAPTER V. Ideas and Representation.  (pages 240-273)Thomas M. Lennon
CHAPTER VI. The Untouchable and the Uncuttable.  (pages 274-333)Thomas M. Lennon
Chapter VII. Innateness, abstraction, and essences.  (pages 334-366)Thomas M. Lennon
Chapter VIII. Philosophy and the historiography of philosophy.  (pages 367-392)Thomas M. Lennon
Index.  (pages 411-420)Thomas M. Lennon

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