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• Lennon and Dea (2014)  + (The expression “continental rationalism” r … The expression “continental rationalism” refers to a set of views more or</br>less shared by a number of philosophers active on the European continent</br>during the latter two thirds of the seventeenth century and the beginning of</br>the eighteenth. Rationalism is most often characterized as an</br>epistemological position. On this view, to be a rationalist requires at least</br>one of the following: (1) a privileging of reason and intuition over</br>sensation and experience, (2) regarding all or most ideas as innate rather</br>than adventitious, (3) an emphasis on certain rather than merely probable</br>knowledge as the goal of enquiry. While all of the continental rationalists</br>meet one or more of these criteria, this is arguably the consequence of a</br>deeper tie that binds them together—that is, a metaphysical commitment</br>to the reality of substance, and, in particular, to substance as an underlying</br>principle of unity.tance as an underlying principle of unity.)

• Lennon and Dea (2014)  +