Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy
Antonia LoLordo (Author)
A comprehensive treatment of the philosophy of Pierre Gassendi. LoLordo situates Gassendi's views within the context of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century natural philosophy as represented by a variety of intellectual traditions, including scholastic Aristotelianism, Renaissance Neo-Platonism, and the emerging mechanical philosophy.
1 online resource (296 pages)
9780511498503, 9780521866132, 9780521122689, 0511498500, 0521866138, 0521122686
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Introduction; 1. Gassendi's life and times; 2. Gassendi's philosophical opponents; 3. Skepticism, perception and the truth of the appearances; 4. Cognition, knowledge and the theory of signs; 5. Space and time; 6. Atoms and causes; 7. Bodies and motion; 8. Generation, life and the corporeal soul; 9. The metaphysics of body; 10. Faith, reason and the immaterial soul.