In the course of the book, Roger Woolhouse provides a systematic treatment of the central metaphysical views of these important and interrelated philosophers, considering their areas of agreement and disagreement. Going beyond the conventional classification of the three as the ''rationalists'', he explores their accounts of what is real and how this lies at the heart of their philosophies. In particular, he shows how they provided the conceptual foundation to the 17th-century science of mechanics.
Author(s): R. S. Woolhouse
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 224
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Editions and abbreviations......Page 8
Introduction......Page 12
Descartes and Substance......Page 25
Spinoza and Substance......Page 39
Leibniz and Substance......Page 65
Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and Extended Substance......Page 86
Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and the Mechanics of Extended Substance......Page 113
Causation, Occasionalism and Force......Page 145
Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and Thinking Substance......Page 161
Extended Substance and Thinking Substance related: 'the nature of the union between body and mind'......Page 175
Uncreated and Created Substance: God and the World......Page 201
Bibliography......Page 210
Index......Page 220
