Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy
Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy
This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the philosophical system of the seventeenth-century philosopher Pierre Gassendi. Gassendi's importance is widely recognized and is essential for understanding early modern philosophers and scientists such as Locke, Leibniz and Newton. Offering a systematic overview of his contributions, LoLordo situates Gassendi's views within the context of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century natural philosophy as represented by a variety of intellectual traditions, including scholastic Aristotelianism, Renaissance Neo-Platonism, and the emerging mechanical philosophy. LoLordo's work will be essential reading for historians of early modern philosophy and science.
- One of very few works on a figure now recognised as crucial to the development of early-modern philosophy and science
- Offers a comprehensive overview of Gassendi's philosophical system
- Deals with connections between philosophy, science, and religion
Reviews & endorsements
Review of the hardback: 'This is a sympathetic and engaging account of a thinker who, like many philosophical midwives of the modern age, still has much to teach us.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
Product details
November 2009Paperback
9780521122689
296 pages
229 × 152 × 17 mm
0.44kg
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Gassendi's life and times
- 2. Gassendi's philosophical opponents
- 3. Skepticism, perception and the truth of the appearances
- 4. Cognition, knowledge and the theory of signs
- 5. Space and time
- 6. Atoms and causes
- 7. Bodies and motion
- 8. Generation, life and the corporeal soul
- 9. The metaphysics of body
- 10. Faith, reason and the immaterial soul.
