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A Companion to Rationalism

ISBN: 978-0-470-99690-4

November 2007

Wiley-Blackwell

528 pages

Description

This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day.

  • Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers
  • Critically analyses the concept of rationalism
  • Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
  • Also covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought
  • Organised chronologically
  • Various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented
About the Author
Alan Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a leading scholar of the great philosophical systems of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and has published widely on rationalism in the history of philosophy and in the philosophy of science.
Features

  • A wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy.

  • Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers.

  • Critically analyses the concept of rationalism.

  • Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

  • Also covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought.

  • Organised chronologically.

  • Various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented.