Receptions Of Descartes

Author : Tad M. Schmaltz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134349128

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Receptions of Descartes by Tad M. Schmaltz Pdf

Receptions of Descartes is a collection of work by an international group of authors that focuses on the various ways in which Descartes was interpreted, defended and criticized in early modern Europe. The book is divided into five sections, the first four of which focus on Descartes' reception in specific French, Dutch, Italian and English contexts and the last of which concerns the reception of Descartes among female philosophers.

Author : Tad M. Schmaltz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139434256

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Radical Cartesianism by Tad M. Schmaltz Pdf

This is a book-length study of two of Descartes's most innovative successors, Robert Desgabets and Pierre-Sylvain Regis, and of their highly original contributions to Cartesianism. The focus of the book is an analysis of radical doctrines in the work of these thinkers that derive from arguments in Descartes: on the creation of eternal truths, on the intentionality of ideas, and on the soul-body union. As well as relating their work to that of fellow Cartesians such as Malebranche and Arnauld, the book also establishes the important though neglected role played by Desgabets and Regis in the theologically and politically charged reception of Descartes in early modern France. This is a major contribution to the history of Cartesianism that will be of special interest to historians of early modern philosophy and historians of ideas.

Author : Delphine Antoine-Mahut,Stephen Gaukroger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319469898

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Descartes’ Treatise on Man and its Reception by Delphine Antoine-Mahut,Stephen Gaukroger Pdf

This edited volume features 20 essays written by leading scholars that provide a detailed examination of L’Homme by René Descartes. It explores the way in which this work developed themes not just on questions such as the circulation of the blood, but also on central questions of perception and our knowledge of the world. Coverage first offers a critical discussion on the different versions of L'Homme, including the Latin, French, and English translations and the 1664 editions. Next, the authors examine the early reception of the work, from the connection of L'Homme to early-modern Dutch Cartesianism to Nicolas Steno's criticism of the work and how Descartes' clock analogy is used to defend two different conceptions of the articulation between anatomical observations and functional hypotheses. The book then goes on to explore L'Homme and early-modern anthropology as well as the how the work has been understood and incorporated into the works of scientists, physicians, and philosophers over the last 150 years. Overall, readers will discover how the trend over the last few decades to understand human cognition in neuro-physiological terms can be seen to be not something unprecedented, but rather a revival of a way of dealing with these fundamental questions that was pioneered by Descartes.

Author : Delphine Antoine-Mahut,Sophie Roux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429787553

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Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in his Reception by Delphine Antoine-Mahut,Sophie Roux Pdf

This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes’ philosophy. According to the standard account, Descartes modified the objects of metaphysics and physics and inverted the order in which these two disciplines were traditionally studied. This book challenges the standard account in which Descartes prioritizes metaphysics over physics. It does so by taking into consideration the historical reception of Descartes and the ways in which Descartes himself reacted to these receptions in his own lifetime. The book stresses the diversity of these receptions by taking into account not only Cartesianisms but also anti-Cartesianisms, and by showing how they retroactively highlighted different aspects of Descartes’ works and theoretical choices. The historical aspect of the volume is unique in that it not only analyzes different constructions of Descartes that emerged in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, but also reflects on how his work was first read by philosophers across Europe. Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a fresh and up-to-date contribution to this important debate in early modern philosophy.

Author : Yaron Senderowicz,Yves Wahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9653720430

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Descartes by Yaron Senderowicz,Yves Wahl Pdf

Author : Roger Ariew,Dennis Des Chene,Douglas M. Jesseph,Tad M. Schmaltz,Theo Verbeek
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442247697

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Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy by Roger Ariew,Dennis Des Chene,Douglas M. Jesseph,Tad M. Schmaltz,Theo Verbeek Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on various concepts in Descartes’ philosophy, science, and mathematics, as well as biographical entries about the intellectual setting for Descartes’ philosophy and its reception, both with Cartesians and anti-Cartesians. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Descartes.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199808731

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Rene Descartes: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study Philosophy. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibligraphies.com.

Author : Tad M. Schmaltz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199958504

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Descartes on Causation by Tad M. Schmaltz Pdf

This book is a systematic study of Descartes' theory of causation and its relation to the medieval and early modern scholastic philosophy that provides its proper historical context. The argument presented here is that even though Descartes offered a dualistic ontology that differs radically from what we find in scholasticism, his views on causation were profoundly influenced by scholastic thought on this issue. This influence is evident not only in his affirmation in the Meditations of the abstract scholastic axioms that a cause must contain the reality of its effects and that conservation does not differ in reality from creation, but also in the details of the accounts of body-body interaction in his physics, of mind-body interaction in his psychology, and of the causation that he took to be involved in free human action. In contrast to those who have read Descartes as endorsing the "occasionalist" conclusion that God is the only real cause, a central thesis of this study is that he accepted what in the context of scholastic debates regarding causation is the antipode of occasionalism, namely, the view that creatures rather than God are the causal source of natural change. What emerges from the defense of this interpretation of Descartes is a new understanding of his contribution to modern thought on causation.

Author : Steven Nadler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Philosophy, French
ISBN : 9780198796909

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The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism by Steven Nadler Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group of leading scholars of early modern philosophy. The first part focuses on the various aspects of Descartes's biography (including his background, intellectual contexts, writings, and correspondence) and philosophy, with chapters on his epistemology, method, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, moral philosophy, political thought, medical thought, and aesthetics. The chapters of the second part are devoted to the defense, development and modification of Descartes's ideas by later generations of Cartesian philosophers in France, the Netherlands, Italy, and elsewhere. The third and final part considers the opposition to Cartesian philosophy by other philosophers, as well as by civil, ecclesiastic, and academic authorities. This handbook provides an extensive overview of Cartesianism - its doctrines, its legacies and its fortunes - in the period based on the latest research.

Author : John Cottingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521366968

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The Cambridge Companion to Descartes by John Cottingham Pdf

Descartes occupies a position of pivotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' extraordinary philosophical achievement. His life and the development of his thought, as well as the intellectual background to and reception of his work, are treated at length. At the core of the volume are a group of chapters on his metaphysics: the celebrated 'Cogito' argument, the proofs of God's existence, the 'Cartesian circle' and the dualistic theory of the mind and its relation to his theological and scientific views. Other chapters cover the philosophical implications of his work in algebra, his place in the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, the structure of his physics, and his work on physiology and psychology.

Author : Andrea Strazzoni
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030198787

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Burchard de Volder and the Age of the Scientific Revolution by Andrea Strazzoni Pdf

This monograph details the entire scientific thought of an influential natural philosopher whose contributions, unfortunately, have become obscured by the pages of history. Readers will discover an important thinker: Burchard de Volder. He was instrumental in founding the first experimental cabinet at a European University in 1675. The author goes beyond the familiar image of De Volder as a forerunner of Newtonianism in Continental Europe. He consults neglected materials, including handwritten sources, and takes into account new historiographical categories. His investigation maps the thought of an author who did not sit with an univocal philosophical school, but critically dealt with all the ‘major’ philosophers and scientists of his age: from Descartes to Newton, via Spinoza, Boyle, Huygens, Bernoulli, and Leibniz. It explores the way De Volder’s un-systematic thought used, rejected, and re-shaped their theories and approaches. In addition, the title includes transcriptions of De Volder's teaching materials: disputations, dictations, and notes. Insightful analysis combined with a trove of primary source material will help readers gain a new perspective on a thinker so far mostly ignored by scholars. They will find a thoughtful figure who engaged with early modern science and developed a place that fostered experimental philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047432975

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Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), le philosophe de Rotterdam: Philosophy, Religion and Reception by Anonim Pdf

This book contains 15 essays on the philosophy, theology and reception of Pierre Bayle, who is now generally regarded as one of the key authors of the early Enlightenment.

Author : Roger Ariew
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501733246

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Descartes and the Last Scholastics by Roger Ariew Pdf

The ongoing renaissance in Descartes studies has been characterized by an attempt to understand the philosopher's texts against his own intellectual background. Roger Ariew here argues that Cartesian philosophy should be regarded as it was in Descartes's own day—as a reaction against, as well as an indebtedness to, scholastic philosophy. His book illuminates Cartesian philosophy by analyzing debates between Descartes and contemporary schoolmen and surveying controversies arising in its first reception. The volume touches upon many topics and themes shared by Cartesian and late scholastic philosophy: matter and form; infinity, place, time, void, and motion; the substance of the heavens; the object or subject of metaphysics; principles of metaphysics (being and ideas) and transcendentals (for example, unity, quantity, principle of individuation, truth and falsity). Part I exhibits the differences and similarities among the doctrines of Descartes and those of Jesuits and other scholastics in seventeenth-century France. The contrasts Descartes drew between his philosophy and that of others are the subject of Part II, which also examines some arguments in which he was involved and details the continued controversy caused by Cartesianism in the second half of the seventeenth century.

Author : Raphaële Garrod,Alexander Marr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004437623

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Descartes and the Ingenium by Raphaële Garrod,Alexander Marr Pdf

A historically-informed account of the lasting importance of embodied thought in the intellectual trajectory of René Descartes, still remembered today as the founding father of dualism.

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603840569

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Meditations, Objections, and Replies by René Descartes Pdf

This edition features reliable, accessible translations; useful editorial materials; and a straightforward presentation of the Objections and Replies, including the objections from Caterus, Arnauld, and Hobbes, accompanied by Descartes' replies, in their entirety. The letter serving as a reply to Gassendi--in which several of Descartes' associates present Gassendi's best arguments and Descartes' replies--conveys the highlights and important issues of their notoriously extended exchange. Roger Ariew's illuminating Introduction discusses the Meditations and the intellectual environment surrounding its reception.