Rene Descartes: Masterial monism or the great soup of being: Descartes' account of the natural world ; The limits of mechanism: the place of human beings in Descartes' world ; Selling the picture: Decartes' story of doubt and discovery -- Baruch Spinoza: God, or nature? Spinoza's pantheism ; Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The principle of sufficient reason ; The best of all possible worlds ; Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic -- John Locke: On living in the world: Locke on the contents of mind ; The life of man: Locke's political thought -- George Berkeley: Denying the obvious: Berkeley's radical reinterpretation of human experience ; Berkely's disproof of the existence of matter -- David Hume: The lesson of Hume: where dowe go from here?

1. Philosophy
2. Modern -- 17th century
3. Philosophy
4. Modern -- 18th century