Descartes Among the Scholastics - Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 1

Descartes among the Scholastics touches on topics shared by Cartesian and late scholastic philosophy: matter and form, causation, infinity, place, time, void, and motion; the substance of the heavens; principles of metaphysics (unity, principle of individuation, truth and falsity).

About the author

Roger Ariew, Ph.D. (1976) in Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He has published extensively on the relations between philosophy, science, and society in the early modern period.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Ariew
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2011
• EAN: 9789004207240
• ISBN: 978-90-04-20724-0
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 244 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: History of Science and Medicin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)