Epicureanism and Early Modern Naturalism

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 19 (4):647 - 664 (2011)
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It is often suggested that certain forms of early modern philosophy are naturalistic. Although I have some sympathy with this description, I argue that applying the category of naturalism to early modern philosophy is not useful. There is another category that does most of the work we want the category of naturalism to do ? one that, unlike naturalism, was actually used by early moderns

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10.1080/09608788.2011.583416

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