This Is Modern Philosophy Av Kurt Smith

<p><b>Provides students and general readers with a basic understanding of the central concepts, issues, and thinkers of the early modern era of philosophy</b><p>Is there a world that exists apart from ourselves? If an external world exists, what is its nature? <p>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? <i>This is Modern Philosophy: An Introduction </i>surveys how philosophers from the late sixteenth century to the early nineteenth century investigated central metaphysical and epistemological issues. <p>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