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The Rationalists: Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2743-4
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248 pages
September 2006, Polity
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"Pauline Phemister’s The Rationalists is a well-regulated account of three great seventeenth-century “system builders”, replete with illuminating contrasts and comparisons."

Roger Woolhouse, University of York


"Pauline Phemister’s comparative study of Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz is an important contribution to the historiography of philosophy as well as a delight to read. The central issues of seventeenth-century metaphysics, including the nature of substance, ideas, God, mind and body, causality and freedom, are treated in depth and with exemplary lucidity. This is simply the best and most comprehensive survey of rationalism available."

Catherine Wilson, City University of New York

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