Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy [Hardcover]

This is a collection of new, specially written essays on the flowering of modern philosophy on the continent of Europe. The eight leading contributors focus on the work of Descartes, later Cartesians, Leibniz, and Bayle, reassessing the influence of Augustine on Descartes and of the Reformed tradition on Leibniz, and tracing anticipations of Leibniz's monadology in the cabbalistic notions of van Helmont, the preformationist theories of Malebranche, and the experimental work of Dutch microscopists.

Preface
1. Descartes, Augustine, and the status of faith,Stephen Menn
2. Descartes on innate ideas, sensation, and scholasticism: The response to Regius,Tad M. Schmaltz
3. Occasionalism and the mind-body problem,Steven Nadler
4. F. M. van Helmont: His philosophical connections and the reception of his later cabbalistic philosophy,Stuart Brown
5. Mechanizing Aristotle: Leibniz and reformed philosophy,Christia Mercer
6. Leibniz and the animalcula,Catherine Wilson
7. Bayle, Locke, and the metaphysics of toleration,Thomas M. Lennon
8. Pierre Bayle, libertine?,David Wootton