Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Rene Descartes

Zusatztext a significant contribution to the literature on Descartes Klappentext 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--anaccessible 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! MichelleBeyssade! Michel Henry! Evert van Leeuwen! Jean-Luc Marion! Genevieve Rodis-Lewis! and Jean-Pierre Seris. 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-translatedwriters. 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'sdistinctness 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 biologythat flow from Descartes's physics. Zusammenfassung These essays by leading Descartes scholars, previously unpublished in English, represent the best current work on Descartes's philosophy and science.

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• Authors: Stephen Voss, Stephen (Assistant Professor of Philosophy Voss
• Assisted by: Stephen Voss (Editor), Voss Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.1993
• EAN: 9780195075502
• ISBN: 978-0-19-507550-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy