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Author | : John Cottingham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1992-09-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139824910 |
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Descartes occupies a position of pivotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' extraordinary philosophical achievement. His life and the development of his thought, as well as the intellectual background to and reception of his work, are treated at length. At the core of the volume are a group of chapters on his metaphysics: the celebrated 'Cogito' argument, the proofs of God's existence, the 'Cartesian circle' and the dualistic theory of the mind and its relation to his theological and scientific views. Other chapters cover the philosophical implications of his work in algebra, his place in the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, the structure of his physics, and his work on physiology and psychology.
Author | : John Cottingham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1992-09-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521366960 |
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Descartes occupies a position of pivotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' extraordinary philosophical achievement. His life and the development of his thought, as well as the intellectual background to and reception of his work, are treated at length. At the core of the volume are a group of chapters on his metaphysics: the celebrated 'Cogito' argument, the proofs of God's existence, the 'Cartesian circle' and the dualistic theory of the mind and its relation to his theological and scientific views. Other chapters cover the philosophical implications of his work in algebra, his place in the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, the structure of his physics, and his work on physiology and psychology.
Author | : David Cunning |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2014-01-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107018609 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Descartes- Meditations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume highlights and offers different perspectives on the controversies provoked by this central text of Western philosophy.
Author | : Steven Nadler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2000-07-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521627290 |
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This Companion contains specially commissioned essays addressing Malebranche's thought comprehensively and systematically.
Author | : Richard Bett |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2010-01-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139828215 |
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This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools, and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The contributors examine the major developments chronologically and historically, ranging from the early antecedents of scepticism to the Pyrrhonist tradition. They address the central philosophical and interpretive problems surrounding the sceptics' ideas on subjects including belief, action, and ethics. Finally, they explore the effects which these forms of scepticism had beyond the ancient period, and the ways in which ancient scepticism differs from scepticism as it has been understood since Descartes. The volume will serve as an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the subject for non-specialists, while also offering considerable depth and detail for more advanced readers.
Author | : Donald Rutherford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2006-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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An exploration of one of the most innovative periods in the history of Western philosophy.
Author | : Norman Kretzmann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1993-05-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139825097 |
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Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was convinced that Aristotle's philosophy afforded the best available philosophical component of such a system. In a relatively brief career Aquinas developed these projects in great detail and with an astonishing degree of success. In this volume ten leading scholars introduce all the important aspects of Aquinas' thought, ranging from its historical background and dependence on Greek, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy and theology, through the metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, to the philosophical approach to Biblical commentary.
Author | : Lloyd P. Gerson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1996-08-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139825259 |
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Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Plotinus was the greatest philosopher in the 700-year period between Aristotle and Augustine. He thought of himself as a disciple of Plato, but in his efforts to defend Platonism against Aristotelians, Stoics, and others, he actually produced a reinvigorated version of Platonism that later came to be known as 'Neoplatonism'. In this volume, sixteen leading scholars introduce and explain the many facets of Plotinus' complex system. They place Plotinus in the history of ancient philosophy while showing that he was a founder of medieval philosophy.
Author | : James Hankins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2007-10-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139827480 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished international team of contributors, call these assumptions into question, emphasizing both the continuity with scholastic philosophy and the role of Renaissance philosophy in the emergence of modernity. They explore the ways in which the science, religion and politics of the period reflect and are reflected in its philosophical life, and they emphasize the dynamism and pluralism of a period which saw both new perspectives and enduring contributions to the history of philosophy. This will be an invaluable guide for students of philosophy, intellectual historians, and all who are interested in Renaissance thought.
Author | : John G. Cottingham |
Publisher | : Granta Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1783780541 |
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'I realized it was necessary to demolish everything and start again right from the foundations, if I wanted to establish anything in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.' Ren Descartes Revered as the 'father of modern philosophy', Descartes is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, but his ideas are also highly controversial and have been subjected to intense criticism by present-day philosophers. John Cottingham examines Descartes's remarkable attempt to construct a new basis for scientific understanding, his famous first principle, 'I am thinking, therefore I exist,' and his notorious and often misunderstood account of the relation between mind and body. He also tackles fascinating and lesser-known aspects of Descartes's philosophy, including his views on language, human and animal nature, the role of the emotions in the good life, and the place of God in science and ethics. Extracts are taken from the whole range of Descartes's writings, including the Discourse on the Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, Principles of Philosophy and his last book, the Passions of the Soul, as well as extracts from his philosophical letters.