Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Early Modern Philosophy Pop Quiz

Concerned Catholic doesn't believe in atheists (HT: Speculative Catholic). Pop-Quiz Question: What well-known philosopher is said to have said exactly the same thing -- to the eighteenth century French atheist, d'Holbach?

At The Thinkery there's a good post that talks about William Harvey. Quick: What Danish thinker who personally knew both Spinoza and Leibniz vindicated Harvey's theory by refuting Descartes's criticism of it?

I just finished a post on Keats. Tell me: What major Romantic poet admired Berkeley's theory of vision, and called Berkeley's A New Theory of Vision an analytic masterpiece?