Philosophy, religion and science in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / edited by John W. Yolton.

Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 1990.

xvii, 539 pages ; 24 cm.

Journal of the history of ideas

"The articles in this volume first appeared in the Journal of the History of Ideas"--P. ix

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

Partial contents: Introduction / John W. Yolton -- Berkeley, Reid, and the mathematization of mid-eighteenth-century optics / G.N. Cantor -- Berkeley's "proper object of vision" / Gary Thrane -- As in a looking-glass : perceptual acquaintance in eighteenth-century Britain / John W. Yolton -- Can there be colors in the dark? : physical color theory before Newton / Henry Guerlac -- Visual surface and visual symbol : the microscope and the occult in early modern science / Catherine Wilson -- The religion of David Hume / Ernest Campbell Mossner -- Johnson and Hume on miracles / Donald T. Siebert -- Hume and Johnson on prophecy and miracles : historical context / James E. Force -- Locke's critique of innate principles and Toland's deism / J.C. Biddle -- Socinianism, justification by faith and the sources of John Locke's The reasonableness of Christianity / Dewey D. Wallace -- Leibniz on Locke and socinianism / Nicholas Jolley -- The Anglican response to Locke's theory of personal identity / R.C. Tennant -- The separation of reason and faith in Bacon and Hobbes, and Leibniz's Theodicy / Jeffrey Barnouw -- Hume and the relation of science to religion among certain members of the Royal Society / James E. Force -- Locke's rejection of hypotheses about sub-microscopic events / R.M. Yost -- The nature and sources of Locke's views on hypotheses / L. Laudan -- The way of hypotheses : Locke on method / James Farr -- Locke, Descartes, and the science of nature / H.A.S. Schankula -- Locke and the changing ideal of scientific knowledge / Margaret J. Osler -- Boyle, Locke and reason / G.A.J. Rogers -- Locke, Newton, and the Cambridge Platonists on innate ideas ; Locke's Essay and Newton's Principia / G.A.J. Rogers -- The historical anthropology of John Locke / W.G. Batz -- Voluntarism and immanence : conceptions of nature in eighteenth-century thought / P.M. Heimann -- Theological voluntarism and biological analogies in Newton's physical thought / Henry Guerlac -- Voltaire vs Needham : atheism, materialism and the generation of life / Shirley A. Roe -- Biology and society in the age of enlightenment / Francesca Rigotti -- Hysteria and mechanical man / John P. Wright -- From homme machine to homme sensible : changing eighteeenth-century models of man's image / Sergio Moravia -- Millenarianism and science in the late seventeenth century / Margaret C. Jacob -- Physics and metaphysics in Newton, Leibniz and Clarke / Margula R. Perl -- Samuel Clarke, Newtonianism and the factions of post-revolutionary England / Larry Stewart.

Includes bibliographic references