Table of contents for Pierre Gassendi and the birth of early modern philosophy / Antonia LoLordo.

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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.