Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- References to Gassendi's Works
- Introduction
- 1 Gassendi's Life and Times
- 2 Gassendi's Philosophical Opponents
- 3 Skepticism, Perception, and the Truth of the Appearances
- 4 Cognition, Knowledge, and the Theory of Signs
- 5 Space and Time
- 6 Atoms and Causes
- 7 Bodies and Motion
- 8 Generation, Life, and the Corporeal Soul
- 9 The Metaphysics of Body
- 10 Faith, Reason, and the Immaterial Soul
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- References to Gassendi's Works
- Introduction
- 1 Gassendi's Life and Times
- 2 Gassendi's Philosophical Opponents
- 3 Skepticism, Perception, and the Truth of the Appearances
- 4 Cognition, Knowledge, and the Theory of Signs
- 5 Space and Time
- 6 Atoms and Causes
- 7 Bodies and Motion
- 8 Generation, Life, and the Corporeal Soul
- 9 The Metaphysics of Body
- 10 Faith, Reason, and the Immaterial Soul
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy , pp. 273 - 283Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006