Subjects “...Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655 Contributions in mechanical philosophy....”

Table of Contents “...Descartes' arguments against the substantial form -- Aquinas' introduction of the substantial form -- Suarez's defense of the substantial form -- Sanchez's skeptical humanist attack -- The mechanical alternative to substantial forms -- Cartesian science and the principles of Aristotelian mechanics -- Atoms, modes, and other heresies -- Descartes' metaphysical alternative to substantial forms....”

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Table of Contents “...Bayle and Cartesianism -- Mind-body dualism -- Critique of Lockean superaddition -- The problem of causation -- Leibniz and the preestablished harmony -- Spinoza's monism -- Mechanism and natural theology....”