The Rationalists
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The Rationalists is a 1988 book by John Cottingham
. It offers an overview of the most important exponents of rationalism
, namely Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. Other thinkers, such as Malebranche, are dealt with, too.
John Cottingham
John Cottingham is an English philosopher, educated at Merchant Taylors’ School near London, and St John’s College, Oxford. He is a Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Reading, Professorial Research Fellow, Heythrop College, University of London, Honorary Fellow of St John’s College,...
. It offers an overview of the most important exponents of rationalism
Rationalism
In epistemology and in its modern sense, rationalism is "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification" . In more technical terms, it is a method or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive"...
, namely Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz. Other thinkers, such as Malebranche, are dealt with, too.