Minds of the Moderns

This is a comprehensive examination of the ideas of the early modern philosophers on the nature of mind. Taking Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume in turn, Janice Thomas presents an authoritative and critical assessment of each of these canonical thinkers'' views of the notion of mind. The book examines each philosopher''s position on five key topics: the metaphysical character...