Claude Buffier : Common Sense, Metaphysics, and Sociability.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waldow, Anik.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buffier, Claude, 1661-1737.

Buffier, Claude.

Common sense.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

Claude Buffier: Common Sense, Metaphysics, and Sociability is the first English-Language collection of essays on the philosophy of Claude Buffier, who exerted an influence on many different authors (including Reid, Hume, and Kant). It focuses on three key aspects of his writings. Part I explores central tenets of Buffier's philosophy of common sense. Part II reflects on his metaphysics of the self, identity, and duration. Part III examines Buffier's thought on social life, with chapters on his conceptions of freedom, social order, and the equality of the sexes. While focusing on arguments and claims central to Buffier's thought, all chapters seek to place him in his intellectual context by tracing the positions which he responded to and those he built on.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Timeline

Abbreviations and Method of Citation

Works by Claude Buffier

Other Works

1 Introduction: Buffier's Novel Philosophy of Common Sense

1. "A Fairly New Plan" for Philosophy

2. Intellectual Connections

3. Organization of This Volume

References

PART I Common Sense, Knowledge, and Truth

2 Buffier and Reid on the Scope of Common Sense

1. Introduction

2. Common Sense and the Intimate Sentiment: Competing Sources of First Truths?

2.1. Common Sense and Intimate Sentiment in Buffier

2.2. Common Sense in Reid: An Ecumenical Sense

2.3. The Equal Certainty of First Truths

3. First Truths of Common Sense and Derived Truths

3.1. General First Truths of Common Sense and Situated First Truths of Common Sense

3.2. First Truths of Common Sense and Hinge Certainties

4. Common Sense Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge

5. Conclusion

3 Common Sense and Skepticism: Reid and Buffier

2. Common Sense, Skepticism, and Perception in Reid

3. Buffier on Skepticism and Common Sense

4. Metaphysics and Common Sense

5. Concluding Remarks

4 Between Social Sense and Taste: Science, the Conduct of Life, and the Nature of Common Sense in Buffier

1. Introduction: The Controversial Nature of Buffier's Concept of Common Sense

2. Buffier's Global Common Sense as a Social Sense

2.1. A Deflationary Interpretation of Global Common Sense

2.2. What Is a Principle of Common Sense?

2.3. Buffier's Concept of Global Common Sense and Roman sensus communis

2.4. One Half of sensus communis (Voltaire)

3. Buffier's Local Common Sense as Taste

3.1. From Global Common Sense to Local Common Sense

3.2. Arts and Sciences.

3.3. Local Common Sense as Taste

4. Conclusion: Buffier's Critique of Metaphysics

PART II Metaphysics of the Self, Identity, and Duration

5 Buffier and Descartes on Knowing the I

2. Background: Self-Evidence

3. Buffier on Intimate Sentiment and Its Objects

4. Buffier and Descartes on Cognition of the External World

5. Structure of Thought: Buffier's Distinctions Among Sentiment, Idea, and Perception

6. Direct Cognition of the I Versus Ideational Cognition of the I

7. Substantial I Versus Experiential I

8. Simple I Versus Complex I

6 From Intimate Sentiment to Pure Self-Consciousness: Buffier and Lelarge de Lignac

2. Buffier on Intimate Sentiment and Kinds of Truths

3. The Feeling of Self and the Consciousness of Perceptions: Buffier and Lignac

4. Buffier on Intimate Sentiment and the Diachronic Identity of the Self

5. Lelarge de Lignac versus Buffier and Locke: The sens intime of Personal Identity

6. Conclusion

7 Buffier and Hume on the Identity of Objects and Selves

2. Buffier as the Initial Target of Hume's "Of Personal Identity"

3. Buffier on the Simplicity and Identity of the Self

4. Hume's Critique of the Simplicity Claim

4.1. Buffier's Disambiguation of Introspective Experience

4.2. Hume's Disambiguation of Introspective Experience

5. Hume's Critique of the Identity of Minds and Objects

8 Buffier on Duration and Existence

2. The Late Scholastic Background

3. Descartes and Locke

4. Buffier on Time, Duration, and Existence

4.1. Abstraction

4.2. Imagination

4.3. Duration

5. Buffier and Hume: Existence and Duration

PART III Social Life, Equality, and Freedom.

9 Willing the Best Buffier on Human Freedom

2. Man Is Truly Free Is a First Truth

3. On the Will, the Understanding, and Volitions

4. On Freedom

5. On Willing the Best

6. Puzzles and Answers

7. Conclusion

10 The Originality and Sincerity of Claude Buffier's Pro-Woman Arguments

2. The Delicacy Argument in Buffier's Vindication of Women's Capacities

3. Imagination and Discernment in Buffier's Theory of Reasoning

4. Poulain's Delicacy Argument and the Originality Objection

5. Buffier's Social Understanding of Science and the Sincerity Objection

11 Nature and Social Order: Buffier on the Woman Question, Equality, and Difference

2. The Ambiguities in Buffier's Defense of Women

3. Superiority, Inferiority, and Equality in Difference

4. Conclusion

APPENDIX Letters by Claude Buffier

2. Principles of This Edition

2.1. Principles of Transcription

2.2. Principles for Normalized Translations

3. Letters

Letter 1: [1700-01?]

Letter 2: Paris, May 20, 1710.

Letter 3: November 14, 1712.

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-775138-5

0-19-775139-3

0-19-775137-7

9780197751374

OCLC:

1574925906