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| Author | : Stephen Gaukroger |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2002-03-18 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521005258 |
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Towards the end of his life, Descartes published the first four parts of a projected six-part work, The Principles of Philosophy. This was intended to be the definitive statement of his complete system of philosophy. Gaukroger examines the whole system, and reconstructs the last two parts from Descartes' other writings.
| Author | : Stephen Gaukroger |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 1464 |
| Release | : 2003-08-27 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134600917 |
Download Descartes' Natural Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The most comprehensive collection of essays on Descartes' scientific writings ever published, this volume offers a detailed reassessment of Descartes' scientific work and its bearing on his philosophy. The 35 essays, written by some of the world's leading scholars, cover topics as diverse as optics, cosmology and medicine, and will be of vital interest to all historians of philosophy or science.
| Author | : John Schuster |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 643 |
| Release | : 2012-10-23 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9400747462 |
Download Descartes-Agonistes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his composing his first system of natural philosophy, Le Monde, in 1629-33. It focuses upon the overlapping and intertwined development of Descartes’ projects in physico-mathematics, analytical mathematics, universal method, and, finally, systematic corpuscular-mechanical natural philosophy. The concern is not simply with the conceptual and technical aspects of these projects; but, with Descartes’ agendas within them and his construction and presentation of his intellectual identity in relation to them. Descartes’ technical projects, agendas and senses of identity shifted over time, entangled and displayed great successes and deep failures, as he morphed from a mathematically competent, Jesuit trained graduate in neo-Scholastic Aristotelianism to aspiring prophet of a systematised corpuscular-mechanism, passing through stages of being a committed physico-mathematicus, advocate of a putative ‘universal mathematics’, and projector of a grand methodological dream. In all three dimensions—projects, agendas and identity concerns—the young Descartes struggled and contended, with himself and with real or virtual peers and competitors, hence the title ‘Descartes-Agonistes’.
| Author | : Fabrizio Baldassarri |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2024-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3031486633 |
Download René Descartes’s Natural Philosophy and Particular Bodies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores René Descartes’s attempts to describe particular bodies, such as rocks, minerals, metals, plants, and animals, within the mechanistic interpretation of nature of his philosophical program. Despite his early rationalistic epistemology, Descartes’s increasing attention to collections, histories, lists of qualities, and particular bodies results in a puzzling ‘short history of all natural phenomena’ contained in the Principles of philosophy (1644). The present book outlines the role of Descartes's observations and experimentation as he aimed to construct a universal science of nature, ultimately revealing the mechanization of nature in detail, and for curious bodies such as the Bologna Stone or the sensitive herb. What results is a theoretical natural history consistent with the mechanical principles of his philosophy, ultimately shedding new light on his attempt to produce a complete philosophy of nature.
| Author | : Desmond M. Clarke |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780199284948 |
Download Descartes's Theory of Mind Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Descartes is possibly the most famous of all writers on the mind, but his theory of mind has been almost universally misunderstood, because his philosophy has not been seen in the context of his scientific work. Desmond Clarke offers a radical and convincing rereading, undoing the received perception of Descartes as the chief defender of mind/body dualism. For Clarke, the key is to interpret his philosophical efforts as an attempt to reconcile his scientific pursuits with the theologically orthodox views of his time.
| Author | : René Descartes |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Meteors |
| ISBN | : 9780521636469 |
Download The World and Other Writings Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. Above all, it provides an insight into how Descartes conceived of natural philosophy before he started to reformulate his doctrines in terms of a skeptically driven epistemology. Of its two parts, The Treatise on Light introduced the first comprehensive, quantitative version of a mechanistic natural philosophy, supplying a theory of matter, physical optics, and a cosmology, and The Treatise on Man provided the first comprehensive mechanist physiology. This volume also includes translations of material important for an understanding of the work: related sections from The Dioptrics and The Meteors, and the first English translation of the complete text of The Description of the Human Body.
| Author | : Rene Descartes |
| Publisher | : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks |
| Total Pages | : 84 |
| Release | : 2021-11-13 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3986770658 |
Download Meditations on First Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes - Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, is presented here in Donald Cress's completely revised edition of his well-established translation, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining its clear and accessible style.
| Author | : Deborah J. Brown |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2019-10 |
| Genre | : Ontology |
| ISBN | : 0198836813 |
Download Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary invention, discovery and revolutions in scientific, social and political orders. It was a time of expansive automation, biological discovery, rapid advances in medical knowledge, of animal trials and a questioning of the boundaries between species, human and non-human, between social classes, and of the assumed naturalness of political inequality. This book gives a tour through those objects, ordinary and extraordinary, which captivated the philosophical imagination of the single most important French philosopher of this period, Rene Descartes. Deborah J. Brown and Calvin G. Normore document Descartes' attempt to make sense of the complex, composite objects of human and divine invention, consistent with the fundamental tenets of his metaphysical system. Their central argument is that, far from reducing all the categories of ordinary experience to the two basic categories of substance, mind and body, Descartes' philosophy recognises irreducible composites that resist reduction, and require their own distinctive modes of explanation.
| Author | : Tad M. Schmaltz |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2002-08-22 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 113943425X |
Download Radical Cartesianism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a book-length study of two of Descartes's most innovative successors, Robert Desgabets and Pierre-Sylvain Regis, and of their highly original contributions to Cartesianism. The focus of the book is an analysis of radical doctrines in the work of these thinkers that derive from arguments in Descartes: on the creation of eternal truths, on the intentionality of ideas, and on the soul-body union. As well as relating their work to that of fellow Cartesians such as Malebranche and Arnauld, the book also establishes the important though neglected role played by Desgabets and Regis in the theologically and politically charged reception of Descartes in early modern France. This is a major contribution to the history of Cartesianism that will be of special interest to historians of early modern philosophy and historians of ideas.
| Author | : Daniel Garber |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 1992-05 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780226282176 |
Download Descartes' Metaphysical Physics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this first book-length treatment of Descartes' important and influential natural philosophy, Daniel Garber is principally concerned with Descartes' accounts of matter and motion—the joint between Descartes' philosophical and scientific interests. These accounts constitute the point at which the metaphysical doctrines on God, the soul, and body, developed in writings like the Meditations, give rise to physical conclusions regarding atoms, vacua, and the laws that matter in motion must obey. Garber achieves a philosophically rigorous reading of Descartes that is sensitive to the historical and intellectual context in which he wrote. What emerges is a novel view of this familiar figure, at once unexpected and truer to the historical Descartes. The book begins with a discussion of Descartes' intellectual development and the larger project that frames his natural philosophy, the complete reform of all the sciences. After this introduction Garber thoroughly examines various aspects of Descartes' physics: the notion of body and its identification with extension; Descartes' rejection of the substantial forms of the scholastics; his relation to the atomistic tradition of atoms and the void; the concept of motion and the laws of motion, including Descartes' conservation principle, his laws of the persistence of motion, and his collision law; and the grounding of his laws in God.
