What is early modern philosophy? Two interpretative trends have predominated in the related literature. One, with roots in the work of Hegel and Heidegger, sees early modern thinking either as the outcome of a process of gradual rationalization (leading to the principle of sufficient reason, and to ""ontology"" as distinct from metaphysics), or as a reflection of an inherent subjectivity or representational semantics. The other sees it as reformulations of medieval versions of substance and cause, suggested by, or leading to, early modern scientific developments. This book proposes a rather dif.

• Table of Contents
• Chapter One
  • 1.1 Early modern philosophy and mechanism
  • 1.2 Analytical Heideggerianism
  • 1.3 Outlooks, mentalities, and universality
  • 1.4 Overview: A look ahead
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
  • 3.1 Developments originating in late medieval thought
  • 3.2 Changes in the concept of substance
  • 3.3 Subjectivity
    • 3.3.1 Cartesianism and the cogito
    • 3.3.2 Mathesis and subjectivity
  • 3.4 Representationalism
  • 3.5 The causal dissimilarity principle
  • 3.6 Causality
  • 3.7 Temporality and dynamism
• Chapter Four
  • 4.1 Relations, causality, and comparative philosophy
  • 4.2 Modernity, Aristotle, and Duns Scotus
• References
• Index