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Contents Preface References to Gassendi's Works Introduction 1. Gassendi's Life and Times The Epicurus project Galileo and the question of Copernicanism 2. Gassendi's Philosophical Opponents Scholastic Aristotelianism Neo-Platonism and the Anima Mundi Descartes and the Meditations 3. Skepticism, Perception and the Truth of the Appearances Gassendi and the Pyrrhoniams Reconstructing Epicurean canonic The theory of vision The objects of perception 4. Cognition, Knowledge and the Theory of Signs The origin of ideas The quality of ideas Syllogistic reasoning Reasoning and the theory of signs 5. Space and Time Space, place and vacuum The ontology of space Absolute space and the extra-mundane void The interstitial vacuum The coacervate void Space and God Time The world 6. Atoms and Causes Varieties of atomism Gassendian atoms The weight of atoms and their causal powers Conservation and concurrence The conservation of vis motrix and atomic motion 7. Bodies and Motion Composite bodies Texture Natural and violent motion Gravity The textural explanation of occult qualities Motion in free fall Uniform and perpetual motion Atomic motion and the motion of composite bodies 8. Generation, Life and the Corporeal Soul The powers of souls The powers of seeds The generation of plants The generation of animals Divine creation, Lucretian evolution and the generation of seeds The probability and significance of seminal explanations The corporeal soul 9. The Metaphysics of Body The theory of substance Qualities 10. Faith, Reason and the Immaterial Soul The immaterial soul in the Disquisitio The immaterial soul in the Syntagma The immaterial soul and the body Knowledge of God Faith and reason Bibliography Index
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Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.