The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are arguably the most important period in philosophyâs history given that they set a new and broad foundation for subsequent philosophical thought. Over the last decade however discontent among instructors has grown with coursebooksâ unwavering focus on the eraâs seven most well-known philosophersâall of them white and maleâand on their exclusively metaphysical and epistemological concerns. While few dispute the centrality of these figures and the questions they raised the modern era also included essential contributions from womenâlike Margaret Cavendish Elisabeth of Bohemia Mary Wollstonecraft and Ãmilie Du ChÃteletâas well as important non-white thinkers such as Anton Wilhelm Amo Julien Raimond and Ottobah Cugoano. At the same time there has been increasing recognition that moral and political philosophy philosophy of the natural world and philosophy of raceâalso vibrant areas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuriesâneed to be better integrated with the standard coverage of metaphysics and epistemology. A New Modern Philosophy: The Inclusive Anthology of Primary Sources addressesâin one volumeâthese valid criticisms. Weaving together multiple voices and all of the eraâs vibrant areas of debate this volume sets a new agenda for studying modern philosophy. It includes a wide range of readings from 34 thinkers integrating essential works from all of the canonical writers along with the previously neglected philosophers. Arranged chronologically editors Eugene Marshall and Susanne Sreedhar provide an introduction for each author that sets the thinker in his or her time period as well as in the longer debates to which the thinker contributed. Study questions and suggestions for further reading conclude each chapter. At the end of the volume in addition to a comprehensive subject index the book includes 13 Syllabus Modules which will help instructors use the book to easily set up different topically structured courses such as The Citizen and the State Mind and Matter Education Theories of Perception or Metaphysics of Causation. And an eresource offers a wide range of supplemental online resources including essay assignments exams quizzes student handouts reading questions and scholarly articles on teaching the history of philosophy. . Language: English