A Companion to Rationalism

This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day.

• Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers


• Critically analyses the concept of rationalism


• Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries


• Also covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought


• Organised chronologically


• Various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented

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“Addressing topics from epistemology and metaphysics to ethics and psychology, it is the most compete treatment of the subject known to me.” “I can recommend this book without hesitation.” (Philosophy In Review)

"This companion is large indeed, but the size fits the largeness of its subjects; and it does succeed in its 25 articles in covering that subject . . . A job well done. Recommended." (Choice)

A Companion to Rationalism is impressive both for the high quality of the essays it contains and for their remarkable range, from metaphysics and epistemology to ethics and practical reasoning, and from Plato through the seventeenth century “continental rationalists” to contemporary philosophy. The volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the many manifestations of what Nelson calls “the rationalist impulse.”
–Don Garrett,New York University