{"product_id":"a-companion-to-rationalism-isbn-9781118360620","title":"A Companion to Rationalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCritically analyses the concept of rationalism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFocuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAlso covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOrganised chronologically\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eVarious philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  List of Contributors ix  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Core of Rationalism 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Rationalist Impulse 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlan Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Rationalist Conception of Substance 12\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThomas M. Lennon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Rationalist Theories of Sense Perception and Mind–Body Relation 31\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGary Hatfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Rationalism and Education 61\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Cunning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Historical Background 83\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Plato’s Rationalistic Method 85\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHugh H. Benson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Rationalism in Jewish Philosophy 100\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSteven Nadler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Early Modern Critiques of Rationalist Psychology 119\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAntonia LoLordo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Rationalism and Method 137\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMatthew J. Kisner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Cartesian Imaginations: The Method and Passions of Imagining 156\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDennis L. Sepper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The Heyday of Rationalism 177\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Descartes’ Rationalist Epistemology 179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLex Newman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Rationalism and Representation 206\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKurt Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Role of the Imagination in Rationalist Philosophies of Mathematics 224\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLawrence Nolan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Idealism and Cartesian Motion 250\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlice Sowaal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Leibniz on Shape and the Cartesian Conception of Body 262\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimothy Crockett\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Leibniz on Modality, Cognition, and Expression 282\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlan Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Rationalist Moral Philosophy 302\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrew Youpa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Rationalist Reconceptions of Imagination 322\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDennis L. Sepper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Kant and the Two Dogmas of Rationalism 343\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHenry E. Allison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Rationalist Themes in Contemporary Philosophy 361\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Rationalism in the Phenomenological Tradition 363\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Woodruff Smith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Rationalist Elements of Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy 379\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Livingston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Proust and the Rationalist Conception of the Self 399\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlan Nelson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Rationalism in Science 408\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Stump\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Rational Decision Making: Descriptive, Prescriptive, or Explanatory? 425\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJonathan Michael Kaplan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 What is a Feminist to do with Rational Choice? 450\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMariam Thalos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Rationalism in the Philosophy of Donald Davidson 468\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard N. Manning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 488\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAlan Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a leading scholar of the great philosophical systems of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and has published widely on rationalism in the history of philosophy and in the philosophy of science.  \u003cp\u003eThe rationalist impulse has guided Western philosophical thought from its beginnings in ancient Greece to the present day. In this \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e, a cast of established and rising stars in philosophy lays out the historical roots, the celebrated expressions, the controversies, and the contemporary determinations of rationalist thought.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe volume opens with essays examining the nature of the rationalist impulse to philosophize, and the distinction between rationalism and empiricism. The focus of the remainder of the volume is on the “golden age” of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. However, this is set in the context of its historical development and the appearance of rationalist themes in recent thought. The material is organized chronologically, and various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“Addressing topics from epistemology and metaphysics to ethics and psychology, it is the most compete treatment of the subject known to me.” “I can recommend this book without hesitation.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(\u003ci\u003ePhilosophy In Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This companion is large indeed, but the size fits the largeness of its subjects; and it does succeed in its 25 articles in covering that subject . . . A job well done. Recommended.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Choice)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988614201573,"sku":"NP9781118360620","price":62.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118360620.jpg?v=1761780978","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-rationalism-isbn-9781118360620","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}