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  • Armstrong's Materialist Theory of Mind

    Edited by Peter Anstey, David Braddon-Mitchell ...
    A Materialist Theory of Mind (1968) by David Armstrong is one of a handful of texts that began the physicalist revolution in the philosophy of mind. It is perhaps the most influential book in the field of the second half of the twentieth century. In this volume a distinguished international team of philosophers examine what we still owe to Armstrong's theory, and how to expand it, as well as ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Peter R. Anstey ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought. Principles are almost ubiquitous in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the term appears in famous book titles, such as Newton’s Principia; the notion plays a central role in the thought of many leading philosophers, such as Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Robert Boyle

    by Peter R. Anstey ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    First Published in 2004. This book presents the first integrated treatment of the mechanical or corpuscular philosophy of Robert Boyle, one of the leading English natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution. It focuses on the concepts central to Boyle’s philosophy, including the theory of matter and its qualities, causation, laws of nature, motion and the incorporeal. The book is divided ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Definition and Essence from Aristotle to Kant

    Edited by Peter R. Anstey, David Bronstein ...
    This volume brings together 12 essays exploring the history of theories of definition and essence in Western philosophy from Aristotle to Kant. Definition and essence have been central to philosophical theorising since antiquity and remain so to this day. This volume presents a series of explorations of key authors and themes connected by a common set of questions: What are definitions and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Philosophical Correspondence of David Armstrong and David Lewis

    Edited by Peter R. Anstey, A. R. J. Fisher, Stephanie R. Lewis ...
    This volume contains the complete correspondence of two of the leading analytic philosophers of the late twentieth century, David Armstrong and David Lewis. Comprising some 345 letters, including letters to and from third parties, this correspondence is at once a deep philosophical resource shedding new light on the philosophical development of two of the great late twentieth-century philosophers, ... Read more

    $157.49 USD

  • Experimental Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism

    by Peter R. Anstey, Alberto Vanzo ...
    Series Book 145 - Ideas in Context
    The emergence of experimental philosophy was one of the most significant developments in the early modern period. However, it is often overlooked in modern scholarship, despite being associated with leading figures such as Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, Isaac Newton, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, David Hume and Christian Wolff. Ranging from the early Royal Society of London in the seventeenth century to ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Locke on Knowledge, Politics and Religion

    New Interpretations from Japan

    Edited by Kiyoshi Shimokawa, Peter R. Anstey ...
    Locke scholarship has been flourishing in Japan for several decades, but its output is largely unknown to the West. This collection makes available in English for the first time the fruits of recent Japanese research, opening up the possibility of advancing Locke studies on an international scale.Covering three important areas of Locke's philosophical thought – knowledge and experimental method, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy

    Edited by Alberto Vanzo, Peter R. Anstey ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    Experimental philosophy was an exciting and extraordinarily successful development in the study of nature in the seventeenth century. Yet experimental philosophy was not without its critics and was far from the only natural philosophical method on the scene. In particular, experimental philosophy was contrasted with and set against speculative philosophy and, in some quarters, was accused of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion

    Descartes and Beyond

    Edited by Peter Anstey, Dana Jalobeanu ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the philosophy of matter to be charted in new ways. Part I concerns Cartesian Matter; Part II covers Matter ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century

    Edited by Peter R. Anstey ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century comprises twenty-six new essays by leading experts in the field. This unique scholarly resource provides advanced students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the issues that are informing research on the subject, while at the same time offering new directions for research to take. The volume is ambitious in scope: it ... Read more

    $154.79 USD

  • The Philosophy of John Locke

    New Perspectives

    Edited by Peter R. Anstey ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    This collection of new essays on John Locke's philosophy provides the most up-to-date entrée into the exciting developments taking place in the study of one of the most important contributors to modern thought. Covering Locke's natural philosophy, his political and moral thought and his philosophy of religion, this book brings together the pioneering work of some of the world's leading Locke ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Rethinking the Enlightenment

    Between History, Philosophy, and Politics

    by Henry Martyn Lloyd, Matthew Sharpe, James Schmidt, Karen Green, Peter R. Anstey, Geoff Boucher, Dennis C. Rasmussen, Daniel Brewer, Marguerite La Caze0, Genevieve Lloyd1 ...
    One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy, and politics work together. Rethinking the Enlightenment bridges these disciplinary divides. Recent work by historians has now called into ... Read more

    $39.69 USD