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Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (xvie-xviiie siècle)
2021, n° 18 ­L’usage de la métaphysique chez les matérialistes des xvie, xviie et xviiie siècles

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Contents
Pages 11 to 22
Introduction
Coissard (Guillaume), Gengoux (Nicole), Girard (Pierre), Lærke (Mogens)
Pages 23 to 43
Physic, metaphysic and natural philosophy Being and nature in Giordano Bruno
Gisondi (Giulio)
Pages 45 to 63
Bacon's critic of Aristotle's notion of substance. An essential tool in the building of his logic, the Novum Organum
Cassan (Élodie)
Pages 65 to 82
How to think the human soul and God? Gassendi’s redefinition of metaphysics
Bellis (Delphine)
Pages 83 to 119
Metaphysics and materialism in Vanini
Raimondi (Francesco Paolo)
Pages 121 to 148
Aristotle and Descartes, two sources of materialist atheism in the Seventeenth Century Theophrastus redivivus and Cyrano de Bergerac
Gengoux (Nicole)
Pages 149 to 174
The “thinking matter” hypothesis and its metaphysical import in Locke’s Essay concerning human understanding
Hamou (Philippe)
Pages 175 to 199
Between Locke’s doubts and Bayle’s consequences Jean Meslier and the debate on “thinking matter”
Tizziani (Manuel)
Pages 201 to 217
La matière est-elle essentiellement active ? John Toland et l’« autokinésie » de la matière
Wunderlich (Falk)
Pages 219 to 232
“First foundations of an experimental metaphysics” Tensions, aporias and repressions of a materialist metaphysics
Wolfe (Charles)
Pages 233 to 250
Clarifying a vague idea Being in general, from Malebranche to 18th century French materialists
Ferraro (Angela)
Pages 251 to 273
A “classical” materialism Voltaire and his Letter on Locke
McKenna (Antony), Mori (Gianluca)
Pages 275 to 298
The Presence of Descartes in Maupertuis’s Vénus Physique Reappropriation and Critique
Storni (Marco)
Pages 299 to 319
Activity of Nature and Discsernability of matters D’Holbach’s two models of materialism
Coissard (Guillaume)
Pages 321 to 344
Uses and displacements of metaphysics in Diderot
Rioux-Beaulne (Mitia)
Pages 345 to 365
The theoretical and metatheoretical facets of the Diderot to Leibniz relation
Fauvergue (Claire)

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Pages 369 to 397
Apologetics in a mirror An ambiguous correspondence by Lévesque de Burigny (1763)
Boussuge (Emmanuel), Mothu (Alain)
Pages 399 to 408
Abstracts
Libertinage et philosophie is an open space for debate about all questions related to the secularization of thought and mores and the evolution and spread of free inquiry.
  • CLIL theme: 3126 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Philosophie
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-12208-1
  • EAN: 9782406122081
  • ISSN: 2557-4019
  • DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12209-8
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 10-06-2021
  • Periodicity: Annual
  • Languages: French, English
  • Keyword: materialism, metaphysics, physics, logic, atheism, theology, Classical Age, empiricism, active material, mechanism

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