TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nelson,Alan Jean
TI  - A companion to rationalism
T2  - Blackwell companions to philosophy
SN  - 1405109092
AV  - B833 .C66 2005
U1  - 149.7 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Malden, MA, Oxford
PB  - Blackwell Pub.
KW  - Rationalism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; The rationalist impulse; Alan Nelson --; 2; The rationalist conception of substance; Thomas M. Lennon --; 3; Rationalist theories of sense perception and mind-body relation; Gary Hatfield --; 4; Rationalism and education; David Cunning --; 5; Plato's rationalistic method; Hugh H. Benson --; 6; Rationalism in Jewish philosophy; Steven Nadler --; 7; Early modern critiques of rationalist psychology; Antonia LoLordo --; 8; Rationalism and method; Matthew J. Kisner --; 9; Cartesian imaginations : the method and passions of imagining; Dennis L. Sepper --; 10; Descartes' rationalist epistemology; Lex Newman --; 11; Rationalism and representation; Kurt Smith --; 12; The role of the imagination in rationalist philosophies of mathematics; Lawrence Nolan --; 13; Idealism and Cartesian motion; Alice Sowaal --; 14; Leibniz on shape and the Cartesian conception of body; Timothy Crockett --; 15; Leibniz on modality, cognition, and expression; Alan Nelson --; 16; Rationalist moral philosophy; Andrew Youpa --; 17; Spinoza, Leibniz, and the rationalist reconceptions of imagination; Dennis L. Sepper --; 18; Kant and the two dogmas of rationalism; Henry E. Allison --; 19; Rationalism in the phenomenological tradition; David Woodruff Smith --; 20; Rationalist elements of twentieth-century analytic philosophy; Paul Livingston --; 21; Proust and the rationalist conception of the self; Alan Nelson --; 22; Rationalism in science; David Stump --; 23; Rational decision making : descriptive, prescriptive, or explanatory?; Jonathan Michael Kaplan --; 24; What is a feminist to do with rational choice?; Mariam Thalos --; 25; Rationalism in the philosophy of Donald Davidson; Richard N. Manning
N2  - "The 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."--BOOK JACKET
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