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Taylor & Francis Ltd Debates in Modern Philosophy Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses by Stewart Duncan and Antonia LoLordo
Debates in Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses provides an in-depth, engaging introduction to important issues in modern philosophy. It presents 13 key interpretive debates to students, and ranges in coverage from Descartes' Meditations to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason._x000D__x000D_Debates include:_x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_Did Descartes have a developed and consistent view about how the mind interacts with the body?_x000D_Was Leibniz an idealist, or did he believe in corporeal substances?_x000D_What is Locke's theory of personal identity?_x000D_Could there be a Berkeleian metaphysics without God?_x000D_Did Hume believe in causal powers?_x000D_What is Kant's transcendental idealism?_x000D__x000D_Each of the thirteen debates consists of a well known article or book chapter from a living philosopher, followed by a new response from a different scholar, specially commissioned for this volume. Every debate is prefaced by an introduction written for those coming upon the debates for the first time and followed by an annotated list for further reading. The volume starts with an introduction that explains the importance and relevance of the modern period and its key debates to philosophy and ends with a glossary that covers terms from both the modern period and the study of the history of philosophy in general._x000D__x000D_Debates in Modern Philosophy will help students evaluate different interpretations of key texts from modern philosophy, and provide a model for constructing their own positions in these debates._x000D_show more