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The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are arguably the most
important period in philosophy's history, given that they set a new
and broad foundation for subsequent philosophical thought. Over the
last decade, however, discontent among instructors has grown with
coursebooks' unwavering focus on the era's seven most well-known
philosophers-all of them white and male-and on their exclusively
metaphysical and epistemological concerns. While few dispute the
centrality of these figures and the questions they raised, the
modern era also included essential contributions from women-like
Margaret Cavendish, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Mary Wollstonecraft, and
Emilie Du Chatelet-as well as important non-white thinkers, such as
Anton Wilhelm Amo, Julien Raimond, and Ottobah Cugoano. At the same
time, there has been increasing recognition that moral and
political philosophy, philosophy of the natural world, and
philosophy of race-also vibrant areas of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries-need to be better integrated with the standard
coverage of metaphysics and epistemology. A New Modern Philosophy:
The Inclusive Anthology of Primary Sources addresses-in one
volume-these valid criticisms. Weaving together multiple voices and
all of the era's vibrant areas of debate, this volume sets a new
agenda for studying modern philosophy. It includes a wide range of
readings from 34 thinkers, integrating essential works from all of
the canonical writers along with the previously neglected
philosophers. Arranged chronologically, editors Eugene Marshall and
Susanne Sreedhar provide an introduction for each author that sets
the thinker in his or her time period as well as in the longer
debates to which the thinker contributed. Study questions and
suggestions for further reading conclude each chapter. At the end
of the volume, in addition to a comprehensive subject index, the
book includes 13 Syllabus Modules, which will help instructors use
the book to easily set up different topically structured courses,
such as "The Citizen and the State," "Mind and Matter,"
"Education," "Theories of Perception," or "Metaphysics of
Causation." And an eresource offers a wide range of supplemental
online resources, including essay assignments, exams, quizzes,
student handouts, reading questions, and scholarly articles on
teaching the history of philosophy.
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are arguably the most
important period in philosophy's history, given that they set a new
and broad foundation for subsequent philosophical thought. Over the
last decade, however, discontent among instructors has grown with
coursebooks' unwavering focus on the era's seven most well-known
philosophers-all of them white and male-and on their exclusively
metaphysical and epistemological concerns. While few dispute the
centrality of these figures and the questions they raised, the
modern era also included essential contributions from women-like
Margaret Cavendish, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Mary Wollstonecraft, and
Emilie Du Chatelet-as well as important non-white thinkers, such as
Anton Wilhelm Amo, Julien Raimond, and Ottobah Cugoano. At the same
time, there has been increasing recognition that moral and
political philosophy, philosophy of the natural world, and
philosophy of race-also vibrant areas of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries-need to be better integrated with the standard
coverage of metaphysics and epistemology. A New Modern Philosophy:
The Inclusive Anthology of Primary Sources addresses-in one
volume-these valid criticisms. Weaving together multiple voices and
all of the era's vibrant areas of debate, this volume sets a new
agenda for studying modern philosophy. It includes a wide range of
readings from 34 thinkers, integrating essential works from all of
the canonical writers along with the previously neglected
philosophers. Arranged chronologically, editors Eugene Marshall and
Susanne Sreedhar provide an introduction for each author that sets
the thinker in his or her time period as well as in the longer
debates to which the thinker contributed. Study questions and
suggestions for further reading conclude each chapter. At the end
of the volume, in addition to a comprehensive subject index, the
book includes 13 Syllabus Modules, which will help instructors use
the book to easily set up different topically structured courses,
such as "The Citizen and the State," "Mind and Matter,"
"Education," "Theories of Perception," or "Metaphysics of
Causation." And an eresource offers a wide range of supplemental
online resources, including essay assignments, exams, quizzes,
student handouts, reading questions, and scholarly articles on
teaching the history of philosophy.
"Margaret Cavendish's philosophical work is at last taking its
rightful place in the history of seventeenth-century thought, but
her writings are so voluminous and wide-ranging that introducing
her work to students has been difficult-at least until this volume
came along. This carefully edited abridgment of Observations upon
Experimental Philosophy will be indispensable for making
Cavendish's fascinating ideas accessible to students. Marshall's
Introduction provides a helpful overview of themes in Cavendish's
natural philosophy, and the footnotes contain useful background
information about some of the texts and philosophers that Cavendish
mentions. The additional selections from Descartes, Hobbes, Boyle,
and Hooke also help contextualize Cavendish's views." -Deborah
Boyle, College of Charleston
Over the years, Congress has authorised and the federal government
has administered programs to provide food to the hungry and to
other vulnerable populations in the United States. This book
provides an overview of hunger and food insecurity along with the
related network of programs. Evaluating trends in hunger and in our
nation is crucial to understanding if the efforts to prevent hunger
are working and in recognizing if there are particular vulnerable
populations that need assistance.
"Margaret Cavendish's philosophical work is at last taking its
rightful place in the history of seventeenth-century thought, but
her writings are so voluminous and wide-ranging that introducing
her work to students has been difficult-at least until this volume
came along. This carefully edited abridgment of Observations upon
Experimental Philosophy will be indispensable for making
Cavendish's fascinating ideas accessible to students. Marshall's
Introduction provides a helpful overview of themes in Cavendish's
natural philosophy, and the footnotes contain useful background
information about some of the texts and philosophers that Cavendish
mentions. The additional selections from Descartes, Hobbes, Boyle,
and Hooke also help contextualize Cavendish's views." -Deborah
Boyle, College of Charleston
Eugene Marshall presents an original, systematic account of
Spinoza's philosophy of mind, in which the mind is presented as an
affective mechanism, one that, when rational, behaves as a
spiritual automaton. The central feature of the account is a novel
concept of consciousness, one that identifies consciousness with
affectivity, a property of an idea paradigmatically but not
exhaustively instantiated by those modes of thought Spinoza calls
affects. Inadequate and adequate ideas come to consciousness, and
thus impact our well-being and establish or disturb our happiness,
only insofar as they become affects and, thus, conscious. And ideas
become affects by entering into appropriate causal relations with
the other ideas that constitute a mind. Furthermore, the topic of
consciousness in Spinoza provides an eminently well-placed point of
entry into his system, because it flows directly out of his central
metaphysical, epistemological, and psychological commitments-and it
does so in a way that allows us to see Spinoza's philosophy as a
systematic whole. Further, doing so provides a thoroughly
consistent yet novel way of thinking about central themes in his
thought. Marshall's reading provides a novel understanding of
adequacy, innateness, power, activity and passivity, the affects,
the conatus, bondage, freedom, the illusion of free will, akrasia,
blessedness, salvation, and the eternity of the soul. In short, by
explaining the affective mechanisms of consciousness in Spinoza,
The Spiritual Automaton illuminates Spinoza's systematic
philosophical and ethical project as a whole, as well as in its
details, in a striking new way.
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