Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-187) and index.

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: The Logic of Ideas -- Chapter Three: Structure of the New Logic -- Chapter Four: The Dutch Context -- Chapter Five: Jean le Clerc: Lockean Empiricism in Textbook Format (1692) -- Chapter Six: Jean-Pierre de Crousaz: Accommodation between Old and New Logic (1725) -- Chapter Seven: Nicolaus Engelhard's Wolffianism (1732) -- Chapter Eight: Willem Jacob's Gravesande's Philosophical Defence of Newtonianism (1736) -- Chapter Nine: Petrus van Musschenbroek: Logic and Natural Science Part Ways (1748) -- Chapter Ten: Conclusion: Dutch Eclectic Logic, 1690-1750 -- Bibliography -- Index of names.

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The seventeenth century was a period of dramatic change in the field of philosophy. In logic, traditional Aristotelian textbooks were transformed by the emergence of an alternative ‘logic of ideas’. This new logic was developed by Descartes and Locke, its main representatives, and by Arnauld and Malebranche. The present study starts with a fresh and detailed analysis of the logic of ideas. The author then puts the fruitfulness of his characterization of the new logic to the test, by studying its reception in the eclectic intellectual environment of the Dutch Republic between 1690 and 1750. This is the first comprehensive study of the early modern logic of ideas. It is also a profound contribution to our understanding of the interaction between Aristotelianism and new philosophy and between rationalism and empiricism.