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This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day.
* Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers
* Critically analyses the concept of rationalism
* Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
* Also covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought
* Organised chronologically
* Various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented

List of Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations xii
Introduction xiv
Part I The Core of Rationalism 1
1 The Rationalist Impulse 3
Alan Nelson
2 The Rationalist Conception of Substance 12
Thomas M. Lennon
3 Rationalist Theories of Sense Perception and Mind-Body Relation 31
Gary Hatfield
4 Rationalism and Education 61
David Cunning
Part II The Historical Background 83
5 Plato's Rationalistic Method 85
Hugh H. Benson
6 Rationalism in Jewish Philosophy 100
Steven Nadler
7 Early Modern Critiques of Rationalist Psychology 119
Antonia LoLordo
8 Rationalism and Method 137
Matthew J. Kisner
9 Cartesian Imaginations: The Method and Passions of Imagining 156
Dennis L. Sepper
Part III The Heyday of Rationalism 177
10 Descartes' Rationalist Epistemology 179
Lex Newman
11 Rationalism and Representation 206
Kurt Smith
12 The Role of the Imagination in Rationalist Philosophies of Mathematics 224
Lawrence Nolan
13 Idealism and Cartesian Motion 250
Alice Sowaal
14 Leibniz on Shape and the Cartesian Conception of Body 262
Timothy Crockett
15 Leibniz on Modality, Cognition, and Expression 282
Alan Nelson
16 Rationalist Moral Philosophy 302
Andrew Youpa
17 Spinoza, Leibniz, and the Rationalist Reconceptions of Imagination 322
Dennis L. Sepper
18 Kant and the Two Dogmas of Rationalism 343
Henry E. Allison
Part IV Rationalist Themes in Contemporary Philosophy 361
19 Rationalism in the Phenomenological Tradition 363
David Woodruff Smith
20 Rationalist Elements of Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy 379
Paul Livingston
21 Proust and the Rationalist Conception of the Self 399
Alan Nelson
22 Rationalism in Science 408
David Stump
23 Rational Decision Making: Descriptive, Prescriptive, or Explanatory? 425
Jonathan Michael Kaplan
24 What is a Feminist to do with Rational Choice? 450
Mariam Thalos
25 Rationalism in the Philosophy of Donald Davidson 468
Richard N. Manning
Index 488