Provides students and general readers with a basic understanding of the central concepts, issues, and thinkers of the early modern era of philosophy
Is there a world that exists apart from ourselves? If an external world exists, what is its nature?
Can an external world based on evidence from our sense perception be known? How do such questions arise? Is it even possible for them to be answered? This is Modern Philosophy: An Introduction surveys how philosophers from the late sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century investigated central metaphysical and epistemological issues.
Focusing on six key philosophers, this accessible volume provides readers with a solid and balanced appreciation of how philosophy was done in the Modern period. Each chapter explores the views of a particular thinker-Ren-escartes, Thomas Hobbes, George Berkeley, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Lady Mary Shepherd-with special attention paid to their engagement with -The Problem of
