Table of Contents

Volume 1
1: Cartesian and Aristotelian Physics
2: Matter and Space
3: Descartes's Physics
4: Descartes's Dualisms
5: Descartes on Causation
6: Preparing to Approach Spinoza
7: One Extended Substance
8: Explaining the Parallelism
9: Explanatory Rationalism
10: Spinoza on Belief and Error
11: Desire in Descartes and Spinoza
12: Leibniz Arrives at Monads
13: Causation and Perception in Leibniz
14: Leibniz's Physics
15: Harmony
16: Animals that Think
17: Leibniz'a Contained-Predicate Doctrine
18: Leibniz and Relations
19: Descartes's Search for Security
20: Descartes's Stability Project
Volume 2
21: Lockean Ideas: Overview and Foundations
22: Lockean Ideas: Some Details
23: Knowledge of Necessity
24: Descartes's Theory of Modality
25: Secondary Qualities
26: Locke on Essences
27: Substance in Locke
28: Berkeley against Materialism
29: Berkeley's Use of Locke's Work
30: Berkeley on Spirits
31: Berkeleian Sensible Things
32: Hume's 'Ideas'
33: Hume and Belief
34: Some Humean Doctrine about Relations
35: Hume on Causation: Negative
36: Hume on Causation: Positive
37: Hume on the Existence of Bodies
38: Reason
39: Locke on Diachronic Identity-Judgements
40: Hume and Leibniz on Personal Identity
Bibliography, Index of Persons, Index of Topics

About the Author

Jonathan Bennett, who now lives on an island near Vancouver, BC, was formerly Lecturer in Moral Science at the University of Cambridge, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and then at
Syracuse University. He has held visiting positions at Cornell, Michigan,Pittsburgh, and Princeton, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a visiting Fellow at All Souls
College, Oxford. He is Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy.

Reviews

Its discussion of the various modern philosophers is fairly compact and orderly ... a clear and engaging discussion of central issues in early modern metaphysics and epistemology Mind Very interesting and profitable to read Michael Ayers, Times Literary Supplement A noteworthy feature of the book is the continuously powerful presence of an authorial self ... This book will be widely read and discussed both for its virtues and, I trust, like the works it discusses, for its faults Michael Ayers, Times Literary Supplement