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Descartes' natural philosophy /
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 div...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter Introduction
- part Part I Mechanics and cosmology
- chapter 1 Descartes and the natural philosophy of the Coimbra commentaries / Dennis Des Chene
- chapter 2 Descartes' debt to Beeckman
- Inspiration, cooperation, conflict / Klaas van Berkel
- chapter 3 The foundational role of hydrostatics and statics in Descartes' natural philosophy / Stephen Gaukroger
- chapter 4 Force, determination and impact / Peter McLaughlin
- chapter 5 A different Descartes
- Descartes and the programme for a mathematical physics in his correspondence / Daniel Garber
- chapter 6 Causal powers and occasionalism from Descartes to Malebranche / Desmond Clarke
- chapter 7 The invention of nature
- Descartes and Regius / Theo Verbeek
- chapter 8 The influence of Cartesian cosmology in England / Peter Harrison
- part Part II Method, optics, and the role of experiment
- chapter 9 Neo-Aristotle and method
- Between Zabarella and Descartes / Timothy J. Reiss
- chapter 10 Figuring things out: figurate problem-solving in the
- Figurate problem-solving in the early Descartes / Dennis L. Sepper
- chapter 11 The rainbow
- A privileged epistemological model / Jean-Robert Armogathe
- chapter 12 Descartes opticien
- The construction of the law of refraction and the manufacture of its physical rationales, 1618-29 / John A. Schuster
- chapter 13 A 'science for honnêtes hommes': La Recherche de la Vérité and the deconstruction of experimental knowledge
- deconstruction of experimental knowledge. / La Recherche de la Vérité and the Alberto Guillermo Ranea
- chapter 14 Descartes, experiments, and a first generation Cartesian, Jacques Rohault / Trevor McClaughlin
- part Part III Physiology
- chapter 15 Cartesian physiology / Annie Bitbol-Hespériès
- chapter 16 The resources of a mechanist physiology and the problem of goal-directed processes / Stephen Gaukroger
- chapter 17 Bêtes-machines / Katherine Morris
- chapter 18 Descartes' cardiology and its reception in English physiology / Peter Anstey
- part Part IV Imagination and representation
- chapter 19 Cartesian imagination and perspectival art / Betsy Newell Decyk
- chapter 20 From sparks of truth to the glow of possibility / Peter Schouls
- chapter 21 Descartes' theory of visual spatial perception / Celia Wolf-Devine
- chapter 22 Symposium on Descartes on perceptual cognition: introduction / John Sutton
- chapter 22a Descartes and formal signs / David Behan
- chapter 22b Descartes' startling doctrine of the reverse-sign relation / Peter Slezak
- chapter 22c The role of inner objects in perception / Celia Wolf-Devine
- chapter 22d Descartes, Locke, and 'direct realism' / Yasuhiko Tomida
- chapter 22e Replies to my fellow symposiasts / John Yolton
- part Part V Mind and body, thought and sensation
- chapter 23 Descartes' intellectual and corporeal memories / Véronique M. Fóti
- chapter 24 The senses as witnesses / Gordon Baker
- chapter 25 Descartes' naturalism about the mental / Gary Hatfield
- chapter 26 Descartes and the corporeal mind
- Some implications of the Regius affair / Catherine Wilson
- chapter 27 Perrault's criticisms of the Cartesian theory of the soul / John P. Wright
- chapter 28 The body and the brain / John Sutton
- chapter 29 Life and health in Cartesian natural philosophy / Dennis Des Chene
- chapter 30 The texture of thought
- Why Descartes' Meditationes is meditational, and why it matters / Dennis L. Sepper.