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A Companion to Descartes.
Alongside a discussion of Descartes seminal contributions to our understanding of skepticism, mind-body dualism, self-knowledge, innate ideas, substance, causality, God, and the nature of animals, this volume provides in several essays an orientation to the intellectual, religious, and scientific co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
2007.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: The Intellectual Context; Chapter 1: Life and Works; Chapter 2: Aristotelian Natural Philosophy: Body, Cause, Nature; Chapter 3: Descartes and Augustine; Chapter 4: Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient Skepticism; Part II: Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; Chapter 5: Descartes and Galileo: Copernicanism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Physics; Chapter 6: Explanation as Confirmation in Descartes's Natural Philosophy; Chapter 7: Descartes and Mathematics.
- Chapter 8: Descartes's Optics: Light, the Eye, and Visual PerceptionPart III: Epistemology and Metaphysics; Chapter 9: Descartes's Method; Chapter 10: Descartes's Use of Doubt; Chapter 11: Self-Knowledge; Chapter 12: Descartes on True and False Ideas; Chapter 13: Clear and Distinct Perception; Chapter 14: Causation Without Intelligibility and Causation Without God in Descartes; Chapter 15: Descartes on Substance; Chapter 16: Descartes and the Metaphysics of Extension; Chapte.