SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THOUGHT
(c. 1600 - c. 1785)

SUB-PAGES

Philosophers / Theorists:

By Nationality:

• France:

  • Pierre Gassendi (1592 - 1655)

  • René Descartes (1596 - 1650)

  • Antoine Arnauld (1612 - 1694)

  • Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)

  • Nicolas Malebranche (1638 - 1715)

  • Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706)

  • Baron de Montesquieu (1689 - 1775)

  • François-Marie Arouet [Voltaire] (1694 - 1778)

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778) (see also Romanticisms and Neo-Romanticisms)

  • Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
  • Etienne Condillac (1715 - 1780)
  • Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717 - 1783)

  • Marquis de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)

• Germany:

  • Gottfried Leibniz (1646 - 1716)

  • Christian Thomasius (1655 - 1724)

  • Christian Wolff (1679 - 1754)

  • Johann Martin Chladenius (1710 - 1759)

  • Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 - 1781)

• Italy:

  • Giambattista Vico (1668 - 1744) (see also Romanticisms and Neo-Romanticisms)

• Netherlands:

  • Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)

• UK:

  • Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

  • Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)

  • John Locke (1632 - 1704)

  • Isaac Newton (1643 - 1727)

  • Earl of Shaftesbury (1671 - 1713)

  • George Berkeley (1685 - 1753)

  • David Hartley (1705 - 1757)

  • Hugh Blair (1718 - 1800)

  • Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) (see also Romanticisms and Neo-Romanticisms)

  • Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832) (see also 'Victorian' Thought)

  • Scotland:

    • Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746)

    • Thomas Reid (1710 - 1796)

    • David Hume (1711 - 1776)

    • George Campbell (1719 - 1796)

    • Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)

    • James Beattie (1735 - 1803)

• USA (colonial America):

  • Jonathan Edwards (1703 - 1758)

Topics:

• Neo-Classical Literature and Literary Theory

Feminist:

• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Thought:

  • Neo-Classical Literature and Literary Theory by Women / Feminist Perspectives on Neo-Classical Literature and Literary Theory

Post-colonial:

• Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Thought:

  • Neo-Classical Non-Western Literature and Literary Theory / Post-colonial Perspectives on Neo-Classical Literature and Literary Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

• American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies

• Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

• British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies

• Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Central Canada Seminar for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy

• European Society for Early Modern Philosophy (ESEMP)

• Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS)

• International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies

• Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

• Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

• New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy

• North East American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (NEASECS)

• Pacific Northwest / Western Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

• South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy

• South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

• Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy

CONFERENCES

2008:

• Meaning and Modern Empiricism, Virginia Tech University, April 11-13
• Annual Meeting, Pacific Northwest / Western Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Washington, February 29-March 2
• Third Annual Meeting, Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, San Francisco State University, February 23-24

2007:

• Annual Conference, South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Tulsa, November 16-17

• Experiments, Reason and Revelation: the Moral Value of Studying Nature in Early Modernity, Princeton / Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Bran, Romania, July 28-August 4

• Sensing and Feeling: the Embodiment of Experience in the Eighteenth Century, Sixth Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Workshop, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indiana University, May 23-26

• Knowledge and Science in the Francophone Atlantic World, c. 1500-c. 1800 / Sciences et Savoirs dans le Monde Atlantique Francophone (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), French Atlantic History Group, Pointe-à-Callière Museum, Montreal, April 27-28

• Causation in Early Modern Philosophy and Science, Leiden Utrecht Zeno-Institute for Philosophical Research, University of Utrecht, April 27

• Departure for Modern Europe: Philosophy between 1400 and 1700, First International European Society for Early Modern Philosophy (ESEMP) Congress, Essen, Haus der Technik, March 26-30

• Early Modern Philosophy in Britain and the Netherlands, 1500-1800, Annual Conference, British Society for the History of Philosophy, Centrale Bibliotheek Rotterdam, March 26-28

• Annual Conference, Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Chicago, March 3-4

• 36th Annual Conference, British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford, January 3-5

• Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, February 24-25

2006:

• Understanding Space and Time: Third NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, New York University, November 10-11

• Pursuits of Knowledge, NEASECS, Salem State College, November 9-12

• Preaching and Politics in Early Modern Britain, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, November 3-4

• Eighth Annual Meeting, South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, October 27-28

• Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, October 21-22

• The History of the Transcendental Turn, University of London, September 29-30

• Inaugural Southeast Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Bogazici University, Turkey, August 8-10

• Disseminating Knowledge in Seventeenth Century: Centres and Peripheries in the Republic of Letters, FME Seminar on Early Modern Philosophy, Research Centre for the Foundations of Modern Thought, University of Bucharest, July 30-August 4

• Icons and Iconoclasts: the Long Seventeenth Century, 1603-1714, University of Aberdeen, July 20-22

• New England Colloquium in Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University, June 2-4

• The Enlightenment Project Revisited, Eastern Regional Meeting, Society for Christian Philosophers, Houghton College, New York, May 18-20

• 37th Annual Meeting, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Montreal, March 30-April 2

• The Netherlandish Seventeenth Century and its Afterlives, Duke University, March 3

• Inaugural Conference, Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, February 25-26

2005:

• Human Nature as the Basis of Morality and Society in Early Modern Philosophy, Centre for Ethics and Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu, Estonia in cooperation with the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland, December 15-17
• Annual Conference, Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago, November 12-13
• The Mechanisation of Natural Philosophy, Université de Grenoble, 17 au 19 Novembre
• Fourth Annual Meeting, Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, Newark, October 29-30
• Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, October 22-23
• Annual Meeting, Central Canada Seminar for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, October 15-16
• Fall Meeting, Southeastern Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Virginia, October 8-9
• Seventh Annual Meeting, South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, Baylor University, September 23-24

• Second Annual Meeting, Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University and the University of King's College, July 8-10

• Dialogues and Discourses: Conversing with Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, April 6

• 36th Annual Meeting, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Las Vegas, March 31-April 3

• Natural Philosophy and the Origins of Empiricism, Philosophy Programme, University of London, March 4-5

• L'Entendement et sa réforme à l'âge classique, Centre d¹Histoire des Systèmes de Pensée Moderne, Centre d¹Études en Rhétorique, Philosophie et Histoire des Idées, et Groupe de Recherche Hongrois sur la Pensée Classique, 11 et 12 février

2004:

• Scientia in the Early Modern Period, Warburg Institute, University of London, December 11

• Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity in Modern Philosophy, Inaugural Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, New York University, December 3-5

• Biblical Exegesis and the Emergence of Science in the Early Modern Era, Birkbeck College, University of London, November 27

• Cultures of Consumption, Twelfth Annual Conference, Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies (GEMCS), Department of English, Florida State University, November 18-21

• Third Annual Meeting, Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Rutgers University, November 6-7

• Sixth Annual Meeting, South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, Rice University, October 29-30

• Imagining the Early Modern Archive, Sixteenth Century Conference, Toronto, October 28-30

• Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, October 23-24

• Science, Literature, and the Arts in the Medieval and Early Modern World, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), SUNY, Binghamton, October 22-23

• Interiority in Early Modern England 1500-1700, Department of English, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, October 15-16

• 'The Mistress-Court of Mighty Europe': Configuring Europe and European Identities in the Early Modern Period: Literature, History, Representation, Department of English, University of Wales, Bangor, UK, September 11-13

• Joint Meeting, Midwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy and Central Canada Seminar for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, September 4-5

• Inaugural Meeting, Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, Dalhousie University and the University of King's
  College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, July 9-11

• Rationalism, Platonism and God: Symposium on Early Modern Philosophy, Dawes Hicks Symposium, British Academy, May 26

• Sensibilities, 1660-1832, Princeton Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Princeton University, May 1

  • Inhabiting the Body / Inhabiting the World: an Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 19-20

2003:

• Descartes and Hume: a Symposium on the Nature of Knowledge, University of Manchester, December 13

• Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, November 1-2, 2003

• South Central Seminar in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Saint Louis University, September 26-27

• Central Canada Seminar for the Study of Early Modern Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, April 19-20

2002:

2001:

2000:

Annual:

• Indiana University: Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Workshop
• University of London: Institute of English Studies: Early Modern Philosophy and the Scientific Imagination Seminar

COURSES

• University of Arizona:
  • Modern European Intellectual History: 1750-1945 I (1997) (Crane)
  • Modern European Intellectual History: 1750-1945 II (1997) (Crane)
  • Modern European Intellectual History: Idea and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment and Romanticism (1999) (Crane)
• Boston University: The European Enlightenment (Schmidt)
• Brock University: 
  • Early Modern Philosophy: the Empiricists (Howes)
  • Early Modern Philosophy: the Rationalists (Miles)
  • Early Modern Philosophy: the Rationalists (Nathan)
• University of California, Davis:
  • Early Modern Philosophy (Mattey)
  • Eighteenth Century European Philosophy (Mattey)
  • Seventeenth Century European Philosophy (Mattey)
• Carleton University: 
  • Modern Intellectual History (McKillop)
• Catholic University of America: Modern Intellectual History (Muller)
• Colorado College: European Intellectual History (Ashley)
• Concordia University: Empiricism (Zeman)
• Dalhousie University: The Rationalists
• Drury University: History of Philosophy--Modern (Ess)
• Duke University: Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz (Surin)
• University of Edinburgh: Metaphysics and Melancholy Philosophy-Literature 1689-1764 (Milnes)
• University of Essex: The Enlightenment
• George Washington University:
  • European Intellectual History I: the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment (Kennedy)
  • European Intellectual History II (Kennedy)
• Leeds University: 
  • History of Modern Philosophy (Ross)
  • Spinoza and Leibniz (Ross)
• Lewis and Clark University: Modern European Intellectual History (Levinger)
• Minnesota State University: Modern Philosophy 17th and 18th Centuries (Gracyk)
• Oregon State University: History of Western Philosophy, 1492 to 1776 (Uzgalis)
• Portland State University: 
  • Modern European Intellectual History I (Spring 2001) (Beyler)
  • Modern European Intellectual History II (Fall 2002) (Beyler)
• Purdue University: 
  • History of Modern Philosophy (Cover)
  • Studies in Continental Rationalism (Cover)
• University of Rhode Island: Modern Philosophy (Zunjic)
• University of Wales, Cardiff: British Philosophy from Bacon to Hume (Belsey)
• Weber State University: History of Modern Philosophy (Greene)
• Yale University: 
  • Berkeley, Hume and Reid (1999-2000) (DeRose)
  • Descartes (2002-2003) (DeRose)
  • Modern Philosophy: Descartes to Kant (2002-2003) (DeRose)
  • Modern Philosophy (2000-2001) (DeRose)

JOURNALS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Book Series:

• Ashgate: Transculturalisms, 1400-1700

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Ariew, Roger, and Eric Watkins, eds.  Modern Philosophy: an Anthology of Primary Sources.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998.
  • Ayer, A. J., and Raymond Winch, eds.  British Empirical Philosophers: Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Reid and J. S. Mill.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.
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  • Taylor, Richard, ed.  The Empiricists.  New York: Anchor, 1960.
  • Taylor, Richard, ed.  The Rationalists.  New York: Anchor, 1960

• Selected Individual Works:

  •  

On-Line:

• Archives:
  • Atkinson, Philip: Eighteenth Century Classics
  • Bennett, Jonathan F.: Early Modern Texts
  • Mickelsen, Carl: Readings in Modern Philosophy
  • Uzgalis, Bill: E-texts of 17th and 18th century Philosophers
• Selected Individual Works:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Ameriks, Karl, and Dieter Sturma, eds.  The Modern Subject: Conceptions of the Self in Classical German Philosophy.  Albany: SUNY P, 1996.

  • Brown, Stuart, ed.  British Philosophy and the Age of Enlightenment.  Vol. 5 of Routledge History of Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 1996.
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  • Haakonssen, Knud, ed.  Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy.  2 Vols.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006. [review]

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  • Klemm, David E., and Gunter Zoller, eds.  Figuring the Self: Subject, Absolute, and Others in Classical German Philosophy.  Albany: SUNY P, 1997.

  • Mercer, Christia, and Eileen O'Neill, eds.  Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
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  • Smith, Justin E. H., ed.  The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
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    . 
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    • Miller, John.  Popery and Politics in England, 1660-1688. 
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    • Westphal, Richard S.  The Construction of Modern Science: Mechanisms and Mechanics.  Cambridge: CUP, 1978.
    • Wrightson, Keith.  English Society, 1580-1680. 
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  • Bennett, Jonathan Francis.  Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes.  Oxford: OUP, 1971.
  • Cassirer, Ernst.  The Philosophy of the Enlightenment.  Ed. James P. Pettegrove.  Trans. Fritz C. A. Koelin.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1968.

  • Chadwick, Owen.  The Secularisation of the European Mind. 

  • Copleston, Frederick C.  Modern Philosophy: from the French Enlightenment to Kant.   Vol. 6 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1960.
  • Copleston, Frederick C.  Modern Philosophy: the British Philosophers from Hobbes to Hume.  Vol. 5 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1959. 
  • Copleston, Frederick C.  Modern Philosophy: from Descartes to Leibniz.  Vol. 4 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1960. 
  • Copleston, Frederick C.  Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.  Vol. 3 of A History of Philosophy.  New York: Newman, 1953.
  • Cottingham, John.  The Rationalists.  Vol. 4 of Oxford History of Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 1988.
  • Daniel, Stephen H.  Myth and Modern Philosophy.  Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1989.
  • Darwall, Stephen.  The British Moralists and the Internal Ought, 1640-1740.  Cambridge: CUP, 1995.
  • Dupre, Louis.  The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture.  New Haven: Yale UP, 2004.
  • Gay, Peter.  The Enlightenment.  2 Vols.  New York: Norton, 1970.
    • The Science of Freedom.  Vol. 2.  Rpt. 1996.
    • The Rise of Modern Paganism.  Vo. 1.  Rpt. 1995.
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  • Gill, Michael B.  The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
  • Gordon, Daniel.  Postmodernism and the Enlightenment: New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History.  London: Routledge, 2000.
  • Grayling, A. C.  "Modern Philosophy II: the Empiricists."  Philosophy: a Guide Through the Subject.  Oxford: OUP, 1995.  484-544.
  • Greene, Donald.  "Augustinianism and Empiricism: a Note on Eighteenth Century Intellectual History."  Eighteenth Century Studies 1 (1967): 33-68.
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  • Hampson, N.  The Enlightenment: an Evaluation of its Assumptions, Attitudes and Values.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
  • Harris, James A.  Of Liberty and Necessity: the Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
  • Hazard, Paul.  European Thought in the Eighteenth Century. 

  • Hobbs, Catherine L.  Rhetoric on the Margins of Modernity: Vico, Condillac, Monboddo.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002.

  • Howell, Wilbur S.  Eighteenth Century British Logic and Rhetoric.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971.

  • Howell, Wilbur S.  Logic and Rhetoric in England, 1500-1700.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1956.

  • Hunter, Ian.  Rival Enlightenments: Civil and Metaphysical Philosophy in Early Modern Germany.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.

  • Israel, Jonathan.  Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650-1750.  Oxford: OUP, 2002.

  • Jacob, Margaret C.  The Enlightenment: a Brief History With Documents.  New York: Bedford, 2001.
  • Jacob, Margaret C.  "Newtonianism and the Origins of the Enlightenment: a Reassessment."  Eighteenth Century Studies 11 (1977): 1-25.
  • Jones, Matthew L.  The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes, Pascal, Leibniz, and the Cultivation of Virtue.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006.
  • Kahn, Victoria.  Wayward Contracts: the Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004.
  • Koselleck, Reinhart.  Critique and Crises: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.

  • Labio, Catherine.  Origins and the Enlightenment: Aesthetic Epistemology from Descartes to Kant.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2004.

  • Law, Jules David.  The Rhetoric of Empiricism: Language and Perception from Locke to I. A. Richards.  Ithaca: Cornell UP,1993.
  • LoLordo, Antonia.  Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
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  • Porter, Roy.  Flesh in the Age of Reason: the Modern Foundations of Body and Soul.  New York: Norton, 2004.
  • Porter, Roy.  The Creation of the Modern World: the Untold Story of the British Enlightenment.  New York: Norton, 2001.
  • Porter, Roy.  The Enlightenment.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000.
  • Porter, Roy.  English Society in the Eighteenth Century.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1990.

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  • Rousseau, G. S.  "Science and the Discovery of the Imagination in Enlightened England."  Eighteenth Century Studies 3 (1969): 108-135.
  • Schmidt, James.  What Is Enlightenment?  Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.
  • Schneewind, J. B.  The Invention of Autonomy.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
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  • Selby-Bigge, L. A.  The British Moralists.  New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1897; 1964.
  • Spolsky, Ellen.  Satisfying Skepticism: Embodied Knowledge in the Early Modern World.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001.
  • Thomson, Garrett.  Bacon to Kant: an Introduction to Modern Philosophy.  Waveland, 2001.
  • Wahrman, Dror.  The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth Century England.  New Haven: Yale UP, 2004.
  • Waxman, Wayne.  Kant and the Empiricists: Understanding Understanding.  Oxford: OUP, 2005.
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