Rationalism (Key Texts) [Paperback]

John Cottingham (Author)

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Publication Date: September 1997 | Series: Key Texts

This concise survey, accessible to students and general readers alike, traces the main elements of rationalism from the classical period to the present day. It contains a lucid account of the arguments of the great seventeenth-century rationalists, Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, on scientific knowledge, mind and body, and freedom and necessity, and compares these with the empiricist counter-arguments of Locke and Hume, culminating in the great synthesis of Kant. Later sections discuss the ideas of Hegel, Russell, Wittgenstein, Ayer, Quine, Kripke, Chomsky, and Popper, along with rationalist and anti-rationalist elements in modern ethics.

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Paperback: 187 pages
Publisher: Thoemmes Pr (September 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 185506524X
ISBN-13: 978-1855065246
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,633,301 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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