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  • THE IDEA OF PRINCIPLES IN EARLY MODERN THOUGHT
    PETER R. ANSTEY
    This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought. Principles are almost ubiquitous in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the term appears in famous book titles, such as Newton’s Principia; the notion plays a central role in the thought of many leading philosophers, such as Leibniz’s Princi...

    $1,240.00

  • VANISHING MATTER AND THE LAWS OF MOTION
    PETER ANSTEY
    This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the philosophy of matter to be charted in new ways. Part I concerns Cartesian Matter; P...

    $1,420.00

  • THE PHILOSOPHY OF JOHN LOCKE
    PETER R. ANSTEY
    This collection of new essays on John Locke's philosophy provides the most up-to-date entrée into the exciting developments taking place in the study of one of the most important contributors to modern thought. Covering Locke's natural philosophy, his political and moral thought and his philosophy of religion, this book brings together the pioneering work of some of the world's...

    $1,560.00

  • THE PHILOSOPHY OF ROBERT BOYLE
    PETER ANSTEY
    First Published in 2004. This book presents the first integrated treatment of the mechanical or corpuscular philosophy of Robert Boyle, one of the leading English natural philosophers of the Scientific Revolution. It focuses on the concepts central to Boyle’s philosophy, including the theory of matter and its qualities, causation, laws of nature, motion and the incorporeal. The...

    $1,560.00