An Anthology Of Writings Of The Modern Period. It Provides The Key Works Of Seven Major Philosophers, Along With A Selection Of Associated Texts By Other Leading Thinkers Of The Period, Chosen To Deepen The Reader's Understanding Of Modern Philosophy And Its Relationship To The Natural Sciences. 1. Descartes' Mediations And Associated Texts -- Montaigne, Apology For Raymond Sebond, The Senses Are Inadequate -- Bacon, New Organon I, Aphorisms 1-3, 11-31, And 36-46 -- Galileo, The Assayer, Corpuscularianism -- Descartes, Discourse On Method 1, 2, And 5 -- Descartes, Meditations On First Philosophy -- Descartes, Hobbes, And Arnauld, Objections And Replies Ii, Iii, And Iv -- Spinoza, Descartes' Pinciples Of Philosophy, Prolegomenon And Definitions -- Leibniz, On Descartes (from The Letters To Foucher, To Elisabeth, And To Molanus) -- Pascal, Pensées, The Wager -- 2. Spinoza's Ethics And Associated Texts -- Hobbes, Leviathan, Introduction, 1-5, 34, And 46 -- Spinoza, From The Letters To Oldenburg And To Meyer (letters 2, 12, And 32) -- Spinoza, The Ethics, Parts I, Ii, And V -- 3. Leibniz's Monadology And Associated Texts -- Malebranche, The Search After Truth, Iii.2.1-4, 6, 7, Vi.2.3, Elucid. 15 -- Leibniz, Discourse On Metaphysics -- Leibniz, From The Letters To Arnauld -- Leibniz, Primary Truths -- Leibniz, A New System Of Nature -- Leibniz, Monadology -- Newton, Principia, Scholium To Definitions And General Scholium, And Optics, Query 31 -- Leibniz, From The Letters To Clarke (letters 1-4) 4. Locke's Essay And Associated Texts -- Boyle, Of The Excellency And Grounds Of The Corpuscular Or Mechanical Philosophy -- Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding I.1-2, Ii.1-14, 21-3, 27, Iii.3, 6, And Iv.1-4, 10-1, 15-6 -- Leibniz, New Essays, Preface -- 5. Berkeley's Three Dialogues And Associated Texts -- Berkeley, Principles Of Human Knowledge, Preface, Introduction, Part I Sec. 1-33 -- Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous -- Berkeley, On Motion, 1-6, 26-8, 35-41, 52-3, 66-7, And 71-2 -- 6. Hume's Enquiry And Associated Texts -- Bayle, Dictionary, Pyrrho, Note B -- Hume, Treatise On Human Nature, Introduction, I.4.5-6 -- Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding -- Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Parts 1-5 And 9-12 -- Reid, Inquiry Into The Human Mind, Conclusion; And Essays On The Intellectual Powers Of Man, Of Judgment, Chapter 2: Of Common Sense -- 7. Kant's Prolegomena And Critique Of Pure Reason -- Kant, Prolegomena To Any Future Metaphysics -- Kant, Critique Of Pure Reason, Abridged. Edited By Roger Ariew And Eric Watkins. Includes Bibliographical References.

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