Thought and nature : studies in rationalist philosophy
- Title
- Thought and nature : studies in rationalist philosophy / Arthur W. Collins.
- Published by
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©1985.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xi, 248 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction: rationalism and empiricism -- The scientific background of Descartes' dualism -- Descartes' argument -- The scientific background -- The metaphysical elements of Spinoza's philosophy of mind -- The objectives of this study -- The concept of substance -- Appearance and reality -- Causality and intelligibility -- The rejection of dualism -- The apparatus of substance and attributes -- The infinity of attributes -- Aristotle and Spinoza -- The order of ideas -- Mind and physiology -- The problem of objects for ideas -- Representation and knowledge of the external -- The unity of Leibniz's thought on contingency, possibility, and freedom -- The defects of Cartesian physics -- Nature itself -- Analyticity -- Possibility and possible worlds -- Freedom -- Kant's empircism -- Ambiguities in Kant's treatment of space -- Outer sense and idealism -- Transcendental aesthetic -- The construction of spatial objects -- Sensation and the objectivity of outer sense -- Primary and secondary qualities -- The spatial and the temporal -- A sketch for the consistent Kantian.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies and index.