British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century by Hutton, Sarah -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover page Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright page Acknowledgements Contents Abbreviations Introduction

The Present Volume Scope

1. An Age of Transformation

Case vs Shaftesbury Scope and Branches of Philosophy Logic Ethics Natural Philosophy Metaphysics In with the New Moderns and Ancients: New Wine in Old Bottles Social Context Religion and Philosophy

2. Philosophy in the Universities

The Arts Curriculum Philosophy in the Curriculum_ General Context Rhetoric Divinity Philosophy Curriculum_ Logic Proliferation of Logic Textbooks Moral Philosophy Natural Philosophy Metaphysics Reform and Innovation: Measuring the Pace of Change Religion, Politics, and the Universities Dissenting Academies

3. Cross-Currents, Conduits, and Conversations

Conduits: Travel Correspondence Books and Translations Dialogues with the Dead Platonism Stoicism, Scepticism, and Epicureanism Pierre Gassendi Hugo Grotius René Descartes Nicolas Malebranche Spinoza

4. Aristotelianism and its Enemies

Scholastic Aristotelianism Aristotelianism and the Curriculum Expatriate Aristotelianism Scotism Eclectic Aristotelianism_ The Blackloists Kenelm Digby John Sergeant Anti-Aristotelians: Ramists William Ames Bacon’s Critique of Aristotle

5. Bacon and Herbert of Cherbury

Francis Bacon Intellectual Milieu Reception Edward Herbert (1582–1648) Reception of De veritate

6. Thomas Hobbes

Political Philosophy before 1650 The Debates of the 1640s Hobbes Elements of Philosophy Passions and Politics Morality Reception Hobbes–Bramhall debate Positive Reception Margaret Cavendish Philosophical Critics Reception Abroad

7. A Cambridge Enlightenment The Cambridge Platonists and Richard Cumberland

Platonism and British Philosophy Theology Apologetics Epistemology Ethics Metaphysics Influence Anne Conway Cudworth, Shaftesbury, and Locke Richard Cumberland and the Cambridge Enlightenment Cumberland and Cambridge Platonism

8. From Philosophy to Science Natural Philosophy of Boyle, Newton, and Others

Science and Religion Aristotelianism/Scholasticism First Swallows Mechanical Philosophy Atomism Experimentalism Natural Philosophy and the Response to Scepticism Walter Charleton Robert Boyle (1627–1691) Boyle’s Corpuscularianism Boyle and Scepticism Boyle’s Natural Theology Boyle’s Influence Alternative Hypotheses: Invisible Powers Material Powers Isaac Newton (1642–1727)

9. John Locke

Biographical Context Two Treatises Religious Toleration Essay Concerning Human Understanding Contemporary Reception Critics Edward Stillingfleet Anti-scepticism_ Sergeant and Lee Catharine Trotter Cockburn European Reception

Freethinkers John Toland (1670–1722) Shaftesbury Samuel Clarke English Malebranchians John Norris (1657–1712) Women Philosophers: Mary Astell, Damaris Masham, and Catharine Trotter Mary Astell Damaris Masham Catharine Trotter Cockburn (1679–1749) Arthur Collier (1680–1732) and George Berkeley (1685–1753) Prospect: The Eighteenth Century

Biographical Appendix Bibliography of Books and Articles Consulted

Reference Works Primary Sources Studies

Name Index Subject Index