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| Author | : Fabrizio Baldassarri |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 219 |
| Release | : 2024-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3031486633 |
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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 | : Stephen Gaukroger |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 2002-03-18 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521005258 |
Download Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : 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 | : Stephen Gaukroger |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 780 |
| Release | : 2003-08-27 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134600925 |
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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 | : 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 | : Richard Swinburne |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Human beings |
| ISBN | : 0198831498 |
Download Are We Bodies Or Souls? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and presents new philosophical arguments that are supported by modern neuroscience. When scientific advances enable neuroscientists to transplant a part of brain into a new body, he reasons, no matter how much we can find out about their brain activity or conscious experiences we will never know whether the resulting person is the same as before or somebody entirely new. Swinburne thus argues that we are immaterial souls sustained in existence by our brains. Sensations, thoughts, and intentions are conscious events in our souls that cause events in our brains. While scientists might discover some of the laws of nature that determine conscious events and brain events, each person's soul is an individual thing and this is what ultimately makes us who we are.
| Author | : René Descartes |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : First philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780941736121 |
Download Meditations on First Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Janet Broughton |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 562 |
| Release | : 2010-11-08 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 144433784X |
Download A Companion to Descartes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of more than 30 specially commissioned essays, this volume surveys the work of the 17th-century philosopher-scientist commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, while integrating unique essays detailing the context and impact of his work. Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on the work of Descartes Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of skepticism, mind-body dualism, self-knowledge, innate ideas, substance, causality, God, and the nature of animals Explores the philosophical significance of his contributions to mathematics and science Concludes with a section on the impact of Descartes's work on subsequent philosophers
| Author | : Stephen Voss |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 361 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 019507551X |
Download Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René Descartes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In English, with some essays translated from French. Includes bibliographical references and index.
| Author | : René Descartes |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 1996-01-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780300067736 |
Download Discourse on the Method Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Descartes' ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics, psychoanalysis, and literature and the arts. This book reprints Descartes' major works, Discourse on Method and Meditations, and presents essays by leading scholars that explore his contributions in each of those fields and place his ideas in the context of his time and our own. There are chapters by David Weissman on metaphysics and psychoanalysis, John Post on epistemology, Lou Massa on physics and mathematics, William T. Bluhm on politics and ethics, and Thomas Pavel on literature and art. These essays are accompanied by others by David Weissman and by Stephen Toulmin that introduce the idea of intellectual lineages, discuss the period in which Descartes wrote, and reexamine the premises of his philosophy in light of contemporary philosophical, political, and social thinking.
