This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day. * Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers. * Critically analyses the concept of rationalism. * Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

This book is a wide-ranging examination of rationalist thought in philosophy from ancient times to the present day. * Written by a superbly qualified cast of philosophers. * Critically analyses the concept of rationalism. * Focuses principally on the golden age of rationalism in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. * Also covers ancient rationalism, nineteenth-century rationalism, and rationalist themes in recent thought. * Organised chronologically. * Various philosophical methods and viewpoints are represented.