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Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René Descartes

Author : Stephen Voss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360540
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René Descartes by : Stephen Voss

Download or read book Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René Descartes written by Stephen Voss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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--an accessible 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, Michelle Beyssade, Michel Henry, Evert van Leeuwen, Jean-Luc Marion, Geneviève Rodis-Lewis, and Jean-Pierre Séris. 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-translated writers. 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's distinctness 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 biology that flow from Descartes's physics.

The Cambridge Companion to Descartes

Author : John Cottingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521366960
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Descartes written by John Cottingham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-25 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Descartes's Method of Doubt

Author : Janet Broughton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691117324
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (173 download)

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Book Synopsis Descartes's Method of Doubt by : Janet Broughton

Download or read book Descartes's Method of Doubt written by Janet Broughton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Descartes's Method of Doubt', Broughton analyses Descartes's novel way of raising radical doubt and argues that he thought he could use doubt to achieve certainty by uncovering the conditions that make radical doubt possible.

How To Read Descartes

Author : John G. Cottingham
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783780541
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Book Synopsis How To Read Descartes by : John G. Cottingham

Download or read book How To Read Descartes written by John G. Cottingham and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I realized it was necessary to demolish everything and start again right from the foundations, if I wanted to establish anything in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.' Ren Descartes Revered as the 'father of modern philosophy', Descartes is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, but his ideas are also highly controversial and have been subjected to intense criticism by present-day philosophers. John Cottingham examines Descartes's remarkable attempt to construct a new basis for scientific understanding, his famous first principle, 'I am thinking, therefore I exist,' and his notorious and often misunderstood account of the relation between mind and body. He also tackles fascinating and lesser-known aspects of Descartes's philosophy, including his views on language, human and animal nature, the role of the emotions in the good life, and the place of God in science and ethics. Extracts are taken from the whole range of Descartes's writings, including the Discourse on the Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, Principles of Philosophy and his last book, the Passions of the Soul, as well as extracts from his philosophical letters.

Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations

Author : Cecilia Wee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134270941
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Book Synopsis Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations by : Cecilia Wee

Download or read book Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations written by Cecilia Wee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an independent reading on issues of interest, such as Descartes' view on error, truth and falsehood, this book makes important contributions to topics that have been the focus of recent scholarship, such as Descartes' ethics and theodicy.

Descartes' Deontological Turn

Author : Noa Naaman-Zauderer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113949306X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Descartes' Deontological Turn by : Noa Naaman-Zauderer

Download or read book Descartes' Deontological Turn written by Noa Naaman-Zauderer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a way of approaching the place of the will in Descartes' mature epistemology and ethics. Departing from the widely accepted view, Noa Naaman-Zauderer suggests that Descartes regards the will, rather than the intellect, as the most significant mark of human rationality, both intellectual and practical. Through a close reading of Cartesian texts from the Meditations onward, she brings to light a deontological and non-consequentialist dimension of Descartes' later thinking, which credits the proper use of free will with a constitutive, evaluative role. She shows that the right use of free will, to which Descartes assigns obligatory force, constitutes for him an end in its own right rather than merely a means for attaining any other end, however valuable. Her important study has significant implications for the unity of Descartes' thinking, and for the issue of responsibility, inviting scholars to reassess Descartes' philosophical legacy.

Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes

Author : Gareth B. Matthews
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801427756
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (277 download)

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Book Synopsis Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes by : Gareth B. Matthews

Download or read book Thought's Ego in Augustine and Descartes written by Gareth B. Matthews and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his concise and ambitious book, Gareth B. Matthews explores the implications of doing philosophy in the first person. He focuses on the most notable attempts in the history of philosophy to take this perspective: Augustine's Confessions, perhaps the first significant autobiography in Western culture, and Soliloquies, a dialogue between himself and reason; and Descartes's Meditations and Discourse on Method. "By examining the first-personalization of philosophy in these two historical figures," he writes, "we can learn something important about our own philosophical options, and about those of any other thinker who dares, philosophically, to say 'I.'"

Descartes's Metaphysical Reasoning

Author : Roger Florka
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815340355
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Descartes's Metaphysical Reasoning written by Roger Florka and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy

Author : Roger Ariew
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 146167185X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy by : Roger Ariew

Download or read book The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy written by Roger Ariew and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy includes many entries on Descartes's writings, concepts, and findings. Since it is historical, there are other entries on those who supported him, those who criticized him, those who corrected him, and those who together formed one of the major movements in philosophy, Cartesianism. To better understand the period, the authors drew up a brief chronology, and to see how Descartes and Cartesianism fit into the general picture, they have written an introduction and a biography. Since everything cannot be summed up in one volume, a bibliography directs readers to numerous other sources on issues of particular interest.

Descartes and Method

Author : Clarence A. Bonnen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134738889
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Descartes and Method written by Clarence A. Bonnen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rene Descartes credited his success in philosophy, mathematics, and physics to the discovery of a universal method of inquiry, but he provided no systematic description of his method. Descartes and Method carefully examines Descartes' scattered remarks on his application and puts forward a systematic account of his method with particular attention to the role it plays in the Meditations. Daniel E. Flage and Clarence A. Bonnen boldly and convincingly argue against the orthodox conception that Descartes had no method. Through a rigorous and thorough examination, Flage and Bonnen unearth and explain the role of the method of analysis in the Meditations. Descartes and Method is a ground-breaking book that is sure to make a considerable impact on the philosophy community. Anyone wishing to gain a new understanding of Descartes's Meditations should read this book.

Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy

Author : Roger Ariew
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144224769X
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy by : Roger Ariew

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy written by Roger Ariew and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descartes is perhaps most closely associated with the title, “the Father of Modern Philosophy.” Generations of students have been introduced to the study of philosophy through a consideration of his Meditations on First Philosophy. His contributions to natural science is shown by the fact that his physics, as promulgated by the Cartesians, played a central role in the debates after his death over Isaac Newton’s theory of gravitation. Descartes also made major contributions to the field of analytic geometry; we still speak today of “Cartesian coordinates” and the “Cartesian product.” 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.

First Philosophy II: Knowledge and Reality - Second Edition

Author : Andrew Bailey
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551119730
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book First Philosophy II: Knowledge and Reality - Second Edition written by Andrew Bailey and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Philosophy: Knowledge and Reality brings together classic and ground-breaking readings on epistemology and the philosophy of science. Andrew Bailey’s highly regarded introductory anthology has been revised and updated in this new edition. The comprehensive introductory material for each chapter and selection remains, and new sections on philosophical puzzles and paradoxes and philosophical terminology have been added. New readings include Edmund Gettier on justified true belief, Wesley Salmon on induction, and Helen Longino on feminist science.

Meditations on First Philosophy

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603844813
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Meditations on First Philosophy written by René Descartes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, is presented here in Donald Cress's completely revised edition of his well-established translation, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining its clear and accessible style.

Discourse on Method (Third Edition)

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872204225
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Discourse on Method (Third Edition) by : René Descartes

Download or read book Discourse on Method (Third Edition) written by René Descartes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1998-03-13 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's translation from the French of theÂ Adam and TanneryÂ critical edition is prized for its accuracy, elegance, and economy. The translation featured in the Third Edition has been thoroughly revised from the 1979 First Edition and includes pages references to the critical edition for ease of comparison.

Descartes-Agonistes

Author : John Schuster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400747454
Total Pages : 643 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Descartes-Agonistes written by John Schuster and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his composing his first system of natural philosophy, Le Monde, in 1629-33. It focuses upon the overlapping and intertwined development of Descartes’ projects in physico-mathematics, analytical mathematics, universal method, and, finally, systematic corpuscular-mechanical natural philosophy. The concern is not simply with the conceptual and technical aspects of these projects; but, with Descartes’ agendas within them and his construction and presentation of his intellectual identity in relation to them. Descartes’ technical projects, agendas and senses of identity shifted over time, entangled and displayed great successes and deep failures, as he morphed from a mathematically competent, Jesuit trained graduate in neo-Scholastic Aristotelianism to aspiring prophet of a systematised corpuscular-mechanism, passing through stages of being a committed physico-mathematicus, advocate of a putative ‘universal mathematics’, and projector of a grand methodological dream. In all three dimensions—projects, agendas and identity concerns—the young Descartes struggled and contended, with himself and with real or virtual peers and competitors, hence the title ‘Descartes-Agonistes’.

Discourse on Method

Author : René Descartes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603844805
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Discourse on Method written by René Descartes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By far the most widely used translation in North American college classrooms, Donald A. Cress's translation from the French of the Adam and Tannery critical edition is prized for its accuracy, elegance, and economy. The translation featured in the Third Edition has been thoroughly revised from the 1979 First Edition and includes page references to the critical edition for ease of comparison.

First Philosophy

Author : Andrew Bailey
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551113609
Total Pages : 1002 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book First Philosophy written by Andrew Bailey and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory anthology brings together forty-eight readings on eight topics central to philosophy. Mindful of the intrinsic difficulty of much of the material, the editor has provided comprehensive introductions both to the eight topics and to each individual selection. By providing a detailed discussion of the historical and intellectual background to each piece, he aims to enable readers to approach the material without unnecessary barriers to understanding. The topics—from "Does God exist?" to "Do we have free will?" and "What is justice?"—have been chosen with a view both to their philosophical importance and to their interest to the first-year student. In an introductory chapter, the editor provides a brief introduction to the nature of philosophical enquiry, to the nature of argument, and to the process of reading and writing within the academic discipline of philosophy.