Modern Philosophy
Walter Ott and Alex Dunn
An open textbook that puts the rationalists and the empiricists side by side: Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz against Locke, Berkeley and Hume, ending with Kant. Primary texts come with short introductions and study questions.
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