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| Author | : Stephen Voss |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 0195075501 |
In English, with some essays translated from French. Includes bibliographical references and index.
| Author | : René Descartes |
| Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2000-03-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1603840176 |
A superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known writings, and key selections from his philosophical correspondence. The result is an anthology that enables the reader to understand the development of Descartes’s thought over his lifetime. Includes a biographical Introduction, chronology, bibliography, and index.
| Author | : John Cottingham |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2008-09-11 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0191551635 |
John Cottingham explores central areas of Descartes's rich and wide-ranging philosophical system, including his accounts of thought and language, of freedom and action, of our relationship to the animal domain, and of human morality and the conduct of life. He also examines ways in which his philosophy has been misunderstood. The Cartesian mind-body dualism that is so often attacked is only a part of Descartes's account of what it is to be a thinking, sentient, human creature, and the way he makes the division between the mental and the physical is considerably more subtle, and philosophically more appealing, than is generally assumed. Although Descartes is often considered to be one of the heralds of our modern secular worldview, the 'new' philosophy which he launched retains many links with the ideas of his predecessors, not least in the all-pervasive role it assigns to God (something that is ignored or downplayed by many modern readers); and the character of the Cartesian outlook is multifaceted, sometimes anticipating Enlightenment ideas of human autonomy and independent scientific inquiry, but also sometimes harmonizing with more traditional notions of human nature as created to find fulfilment in harmony with its creator.
| Author | : Marthinus Versfeld |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2016-08-12 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1315532522 |
Originally published in 1940, this book provides a thorough discussion of René Descartes philosophy of metaphysics, examining the three major points of the mind and body, freedom of the will and religion and science. Specific chapters are devoted to the Cartesian theory and the Meditations, in particular the Sixth.
| Author | : Stephen Voss |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 1993-02-04 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0195360540 |
A major contribution to Descartes studies, this book provides a panorama of cutting-edge scholarship ranging widely over Descartes's own primary concerns: metaphysics, physics, and its applications. It is at once a tool for scholars and--steering clear of technical Cartesian science--an accessible resource that will delight nonspecialists. The contributors include Edwin Curley, Willis Doney, Alan Gabbey, Daniel Garber, Marjorie Grene, Gary Hatfield, Marleen Rozemond, John Schuster, Dennis Sepper, Stephen Voss, Stephen Wagner, Margaret Welson, Jean Marie Beyssade, Michelle Beyssade, Michel Henry, Evert van Leeuwen, Jean-Luc Marion, Geneviève Rodis-Lewis, and Jean-Pierre Séris. Combining new textual sensitivity with attentiveness to history, they represent the best established scholars and most exciting new voices, including both English speaking and newly-translated writers. Part I examines the foundations of Descartes's philosophy: Cartesian certainty; the phenomenology of the cogito and its modulations in the passions; and the defensibility and comprehensibility of the Cartesian God. The second part examines Descartes's groundbreaking metaphysics: mind's distinctness from and interaction with body; imagination; perception; and language. Part III examines Cartesian science: the revolutionary rhetoric of the Rules and the Discourse; the metaphysical foundations of physics; the interplay of rationalism and empiricism; the mechanics and human biology that flow from Descartes's physics.
| Author | : Desmond M. Clarke |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780719008689 |
| Author | : Daniel Garber |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521789738 |
A central theme unifying the essays in this volume on the work of Descartes is the interconnection between Descartes' philosophical and scientific interests, and the extent to which these two sides of the Cartesian programme illuminate each other.
| Author | : G.H. Von Wright |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2013-03-09 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9401590346 |
Descartes made a sharp distinction between matter and mind. But he also thought that the two interact with one another. Is such interaction possible, however, without either a materialist reduction of mind to matter or an idealist (phenomenalist) reduction of matter to mind? These questions overshadow the Western tradition in metaphysics from the time of Descartes to present times. The book makes an effort to stay clear of reductivist views of the two Cartesian substances. It defends a dualistic psycho-physical parallel theory which reconciles freedom of action with determinism in nature. Basic problems in perception theory are also discussed, with special emphasis on hearing and sound. Because of the intrinsic interest of the subject and the author's non-technical presentation of it, the book should appeal to all readers with a serious interest in philosophy and psychology.
| Author | : Stephen Gaukroger |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 780 |
| Release | : 2003-08-27 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134600925 |
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 | : René Descartes |
| Publisher | : Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
