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Descartes' natural philosophy / edited by Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster, and John Sutton
- Published
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 767 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Gaukroger, Stephen, Schuster, John Andrew, 1947-, and Sutton, John, 1965-
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- Contents
- 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.
- Summary
- 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 diverse as optics, cosmology and medicine, and will be of vital interest to all historians of philosophy or science.
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- ISBN
- 0203463013 (electronic bk.)
9780203463017 (electronic bk.)
0415219930 (Paper)
9780415219938 (Paper)
9781134600922 (e-book ; PDF)
1134600925
9781134600878 (e-book ; Mobi)
1134600879
9781134600915 (e-book ; ePub)
1134600917
9780415510707 (paperback)
0415510708 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 751-757) and index.
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