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1. Early modern mathematical principles and symmetry arguments / James Franklin -- 2. The development of principles in equity in the seventeenth century / J.C. Campbell -- 3. Alchemical and chymical principles : four different traditions / William R. Newman -- 4. The two comets of 1664-1665 : a dispersive prism for French natural philosophical principles / Sophie Roux -- 5. Corpuscularism and experimental philosophy in Domenico Guglielmini's Reflections on salts / Alberto Vanzo -- 6. The principles of Spinoza's Philosophy / Michael Lebuffe -- 7. Principles in Newton's natural philosophy / Kirsten Walsh -- 8. Leibniz on principles in natural philosophy : the principle of the equality of cause and effect / Daniel Garber -- 9. Experimental philosophy and the principles of natural religion in England, 1667-1720 / Peter R. Anstey -- 10. A conflict of principles : Grotius's justice versus Hume's utility / Kiyoshi Shimokawa.

Essays by experts on 17th-century thought provide a critical survey of this key period in British intellectual history. They discuss not only central debates and canonical authors from Francis Bacon to Isaac Newton, but also explore less well-known figures and topics from the period.

Includes bibliographical references and index

The epitome (Abrégé) of Locke's Essay / James Hill and J.R. Milton -- Locke on method in natural philosophy / Peter R. Anstey -- Willem Jacob 's Gravesande's philosophical defence of Newtonian physics : on the various uses of Locke / Paul Schuurman -- Locke's concept of justice / Kiyoshi Shimokawa -- Locke, liberalism and empire / Duncan Ivison -- Locke's empiricist theory of the law of nature / John Colman -- Locke's Christology as a key to understanding his philosophy / Victor Nuovo -- Lockean logic / Kenneth Winkler -- Reason's dim candle : Locke's critique of enthusiasm / Nicholas Jolley

"Locke scholarship has been flourishing in Japan for several decades, but its outputs are largely unknown and inaccessible to the West. In this collection the fruits of recent Japanese research is made available in English for the first time, opening up the possibility of advancing Locke studies on an international scale. Covering three important areas of Locke's philosophical thought - knowledge and experimental method, law and politics, and religion and toleration - each chapter criticizes established interpretations and replaces them with novel alternatives, breaking away from standard narratives and providing fresh ways of looking at his relationship with thinkers such as Boyle, Berkeley and Hume. Contributors select topics that continue to have important contemporary moral and political implications, from constitutionalism and tolerationism to marriage and the death penalty. Applying Locke's views to 21st-century questions about society, they present provocative readings of the defining aspects of Locke's philosophical thought, stimulating current debates and heralding a new era of collaborative work for Locke scholars around the world"--

Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Table and Figure; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Francis Bacon on Sophists, Poets and Other Forms of Self-Deceit (Or, What Can the Experimental Philosopher Learn from a Theoretically Informed History of Philosophy?); 2 Robert Boyle and the Intelligibility of the Corpuscular Philosophy; 3 Cavendish and Boyle on Colour and Experimental Philosophy; 4 Appeals to Experience in Hobbes' Science of Politics; 5 Locke and the Experimental Philosophy of the Human Mind