A Companion to Rationalism

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Alan Nelson
Wiley, 2005 M12 23 - 528 pages

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

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A Companion to Rationalism
Alan Nelson
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Alan Nelson
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Alan Nelson
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About the author (2005)

Alan Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine. He is a leading scholar of the great philosophical systems of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and has published widely on rationalism in the history of philosophy and in the philosophy of science.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Companion to Rationalism
Volume 128 of Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
EditorAlan Nelson
Editionillustrated
PublisherWiley, 2005
ISBN1405109092, 9781405109093
Length528 pages
  
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