New essays on the rationalists / edited by Rocco J. Gennaro and Charles Huenemann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Matter and Substance -- Space and Subtle Matter in Descartes's Metaphysics / Jonathan Bennett -- Descartes on Nothing in Particular / Eric Palmer -- "If a Body Meet a Body": Descartes on Body-Body Causation / Michael Della Rocca -- Descartes's Extended Substances / Matthew Stuart -- Spinoza's Extended Substance: Cartesian and Leibnizian Reflections / J.A. Cover -- Leibniz's Constructivism and Infinitely Folded Matter / Samuel Levey -- Locke and Leibniz and the Debate over Species / Susanna Goodin -- Freedom and Necessity -- Descartes on Spontaneity, Indifference, and Alternatives / Joseph Keim Campbell -- The Range of Leibnizian Compatibilism / Eric Sotnak -- The Necessity of Finite Modes and Geometrical Containment in Spinoza's Metaphysics / Charles Huenemann -- Spinoza's Necessitarianism Reconsidered / Edwin Curley, Gregory Walski -- Mind and Consciousness -- A Spectator at the Theater of the World / Stephen Voss -- Distinctness / Clarence Bonnen, Daniel Flage -- Causation and Similarity in Descartes / Geoffrey Gorham -- Teleology in Spinoza and Early Modern Rationalism / Don Garrett -- "For They Do Not Agree in Nature with Us": Spinoza on the Lower Animals / Margaret D. Wilson -- Leibniz on Consciousness and Self-consciousness / Rocco J. Gennaro -- The Illusory Nature of Leibniz's System / Catherine Wilson.

This collection presents writings on Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, the three greatest rationalists of the early modern period. The essays explore how their philosophical systems treated matter, substance, human freedom, natural necessity, knowledge, mind and consciousness.

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