The concept of an "idea" played a central role in 17th-century theories of mind and knowledge, but philosophers were divided over the nature of ideas. This book examines an important, but little-known, debate on this question in the work of Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes. Looking closely at the issues involved, as well as the particular context in which the debate took place, Jolley demonstrates that the debate has serious implications for a number of major topics in 17th-century philosophy.
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"An excellent book....An engaging and stimulating tour of a series of fascinating philosophical debates which constitute central dimensions of the seventeenth-century philosophical tradition....Should generate substantial reconsideration of the notion of ideas and of the conception of mind in a period when Platonism, along the new science, was increasingly influential."--Review of Metaphysics
"A significant study of a central topic in modern philosophy....Jolley manages to illuminate a host of related topics in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, and succeeds quite admirably in offering a philosophically stimulating, historically rich discussion of the nature of ideas. Consequently, this book should be purchased by every academic library supporting undergraduate degree programs in philosophy."--Choice
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He is author of Leibniz and Locke: A Study of the New Essays on Human Understanding (Clarendon Press, 1984) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz (1995).
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wax meditation, dispositional version, priori psychology, divine concurrence, sensory ideas, occurrent thoughts, innate ideas, psychological items, representative theory, claim that ideas, true triangle, dispositional theory, negative thesis, divine archetypes, divine illumination, priori science, third realm, representational content, genuine properties, physical dispositions, mental items Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Search, New Essays, Certain Broadsheet, Metaphysics Leibniz, Truth Malebranche, Human Understanding, Christian Conversations, Principles of Philosophy, Some Further Developments New!
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wax meditation, dispositional version, priori psychology, divine concurrence, sensory ideas, occurrent thoughts, innate ideas, psychological items, representative theory, claim that ideas, true triangle, dispositional theory, negative thesis, divine archetypes, divine illumination, priori science, third realm, representational content, genuine properties, physical dispositions, mental items Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz on 10 pages
- Innate Ideas by Stephen P. Stich on 4 pages
- Philosophical Writings by Rene Descartes in Front Matter, page 1, and Back Matter
- Muirhead Library of Philosophy (95 volumes): Dialogues on Metaphysics by Malebranche Nicolas in Front Matter, page 75, and page 106
- Philosophical Writings (Everyman Paperback Classics) by Leibniz in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Leibniz and China: A Commerce of Light by Franklin Perkins on page 50, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Donald Rutherford in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science by Hilary Gatti in Back Matter
- Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume (Volume 2) by Jonathan Bennett in Back Matter
- Learning from Six Philosophers: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Volume 2 by Jonathan Bennett in Back Matter
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