ISBN The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century 650 pages English

The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century comprises twenty-six new essays by leading experts in the field. This unique scholarly resource provides advanced students and scholars with a comprehensive overview of the issues that are informing research on the subject while at the same time offering new directions for research to take. The volume is ambitious in scope: it covers the whole of the seventeenth century ranging from Francis Bacon to John Locke and Isaac Newton. The Handbook contains five parts: the introductory Part I examines the state of the discipline and the nature of its practitioners as the century unfolded; Part II discusses the leading natural philosophers and the philosophy of nature including Bacon Boyle and Newton; Part III covers knowledge and the human faculty of the understanding; Part IV explores the leading topics in British moral philosophy from the period; and Part V concerns political philosophy. In addition to dealing with canonical authors and celebrated texts such as Thomas Hobbes and his Leviathan the Handbook discusses many less well-known figures and debates from the period whose importance is only now being appreciated.