Modern philosophy [electronic resource] : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Richard Francks.

Introduction: How modern is 'modern' philosophy
pt. 1. René Descartes. Material monism or the great soup of being: Descartes' account of the natural world
The possibility of atheism: Descartes and God
The limit of mechanism: the place of human beings in Descartes' world
Selling the picture: Descartes' story of doubt and discovery
pt. 2. Baruch Spinoza. God, or nature? Spinoza's pantheism
The attribute of thought
Spinoza's ethics: metaphysics and the life of man
pt. 3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. The principle of sufficient reason
The best of all possible worlds
The world as explicable: Monadology
Matter, mind and human life: the world as monadic
pt. 4. John Locke. On living in the world: Locke on the contents of the mind
Locke on nature (and our knowledge of it)
The life of man: Locke's political thought
pt. 5. George Berkeley. Denying the obvious: Berkeley's radical reinterpretationof human experience
Berkeley's disproof of the existence of matter
On what there is: Berkeley's virtual reality
pt. 6. David Hume. Hume's project for a new science: what it is, how it works, and an example
The failure of the project
The lessons of Hume: where do we go from here?