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Introduces students to the life, work and ideas of Gottfried Leibniz, taking the reader new to the subject through the key themes of his writings.>

This book is both a fine introduction to the metaphysics of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz and a rich, wide-ranging study of the interaction between physics and metaphysics in the seventeenth century.' - Kenneth P Winkler, Wellesley College

This is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century. Setting Locke’, s life within exciting historical and intellectual contexts, which included the English Civil War, religious persecution, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, Roger Woolhouse interweaves an account of Locke’, s life with a summary and development of his ideas in theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, medicine, econom...

This is the first comprehensive biography of John Locke to be published in nearly a half century.

This book introduces student to the three major figures of modern philosophy known as the rationalists. It is not for complete beginners, but it is an accessible account of their thought. By concerning itself with metaphysics, and in particular substance, the book relates an important historical debate largely neglected by the contemporary debates in the once again popular area of traditional metaphysics. in philosophy. (Do Not USE)