Author LoLordo, Antonia, 1972- author.

Title Pierre Gassendi and the birth of early modern philosophy / Antonia LoLordo.

Imprint New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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 Monograph Collection  B1887 .L65 2007  AVAILABLE
Description x, 283 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271) and index.
Contents Gassendi's life and times -- Gassendi's philosophical opponents -- Skepticism, perception, and the truth of the appearances -- Cognition, knowledge, and the theory of signs -- Space and time -- Atoms and causes -- Bodies and motion -- Generation, life, and the corporeal soul -- The metaphysics of body -- Faith, reason, and the immaterial soul.
Local Note Gift of Larry Principe, August 2024.
Subject(s) Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.
Philosophers -- France -- Biography.
Philosophy -- History -- 17th century.