The Cambridge companion to Descartes / edited by John Cottingham.

Contributor(s): Cottingham, John, 1943-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992Description: xii, 441 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0521366232; 0521366968 (pbk.)Subject(s): Descartes, René, 1596-1650

| Philosophy, FrenchDDC classification: 194 LOC classification: B1873 | .C25 1992Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents

Contents:

Descartes' life and the development of his philosophy / Geneviève Rodis-Lewis -- Descartes and scholasticism : the intellectual background to Descartes' thought / Roger Ariew -- The nature of abstract reasoning : philosophical aspects of Descartes' work in algebra / Stephen Gaukroger -- Cartesian metaphysics and the role of the simple natures / Jean-Luc Marion -- The Cogito and its importance / Peter Markie -- The idea of God and the proofs of his existence / Jean-Marie Beyssade -- The Cartesian circle / Louis E. Loeb -- Cartesian Dualism : theology, metaphysics, and science / John Cottingham -- Descartes' philosophy of science and the scientific revolution / Desmond Clarke -- Descartes' physics / Daniel Garber -- Descartes' physiology and its relation to his psychology / Gary Hatfield -- Descartes on thinking with the body / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- The reception of Descartes' philosophy / Nicholas Jolley.

Summary: Leading scholars present the full range of Descartes' philosophical achievement in the context of his life and the development of his thought.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-438) and index.

Leading scholars present the full range of Descartes' philosophical achievement in the context of his life and the development of his thought.

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