Early Modern Philosophy

John Grey is Teaching Professor in Philosophy at Michigan State University, USA. Jonathan Head is Lecturer in Philosophy at Keele University, UK.

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I Understanding Human Nature

1 Early Modern Dualism: René Descartes, Henry More, and Anton Wilhelm Amo
2 The Mind-Body Problem: René Descartes and Elisabeth of Bohemia
3 Idealist Responses: Anne Conway and Gottfried Leibniz
4 Materialist Responses: Thomas Hobbes and Margaret Cavendish

Part II Sociability and Education

5 The Nature of Love: John Norris, Mary Astell, and Damaris Masham
6 The Nature of Morality: John Locke and Catharine Trotter Cockburn
7 The Nature of Education: Anna van Schurman and Mary Astell
8 Sympathy and Morality: Sophie de Grouchy and David Hume
9 The Debate about Slavery: Jacobus Capitein and Ottobah Cugoano

Part III Mind and Reality

10 God and World: Baruch Spinoza and George Berkeley
11 The Nature of Space: Samuel Clarke and Émilie du Châtelet
12 The Nature of Causation: David Hume and Thomas Reid
13 A Transcendental Approach: Mary Shepherd and Immanuel Kant

Conclusion

Notes
Glossary
Index