The Cambridge Companion to early modern philosophy

The Cambridge Companion to Early Modern Philosophy isa comprehensive introduction to the central topics andchanging shape of philosophical inquiry in the seventeenthand eighteenth centuries. It explores one of the most innovativeperiods in the history of Western philosophy,extending from Montaigne, Bacon, and Descartes throughHume and Kant. During this period, philosophers initiatedand responded to major intellectual developments in naturalscience, religion, and politics, transforming in the processconcepts and doctrines inherited from ancient and medievalphilosophy. In this Companion, leading specialists examineearly modern treatments of the methodological and conceptualfoundations of natural science, metaphysics, philosophyof mind, logic and language, moral and politicalphilosophy, and theology. A final chapter looks forward tothe philosophy of the Enlightenment. This will be an invaluableguide for all who are interested in the philosophicalthought of the early modern period.