A Companion to Rationalism

Alan Nelson

2012 ഒക്ടോ · വിറ്റത് John Wiley & Sons

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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

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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.