Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Preface

1. Context

2. Overview of Themes

3. Reading the Text

    i. ‘Preface' and the First Dialogue

    ii. The Second Dialogue

    iii. The Third Dialogue

4. Reception and Influence

5. Further Reading

Promotional Information

A Reader's Guide to a key text in British Empiricism and in the whole History of Philosophy - an important addition to the Reader's Guides series.

About the Author

Aaron Garrett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, USA. He has published widely on seventeenth and eighteenth century philosophy. Previous publications include Meaning in Spinoza's Method (CUP, 2003) and Animal Rights and Animal Souls in the Eighteenth Century (Thoemmes Press, 2000).