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A companion to Descartes

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A companion to Descartes

With more than 30 newly commissioned essays, "A Companion to Descartes" details in unparalleled depth the work of the seventeenth-century philosopher-scientist commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy. Alongside discussion of his seminal contributions to our understanding of skepticism, mind-body dualism, self-knowledge, innate ideas, substance, causality, God, and the nature of animals, the volume provides in several essays a unique orientation to the intellectual, religious, and scientific contexts that were important to Descartes' work. Concluding with discussions of the impact of Descartes' work on subsequent generations of philosophers, the essays in this volume offer fresh and distinctive scholarly perspectives on this giant of the history of modern thought.

Malden, MA

Blackwell Pub.

2008

xvi, 542 p. ; 25 cm.

Blackwell companions to philosophy

38

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN: 9781405121545

edited by Janet Broughton and John Carriero

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The intellectual context -- Life and works / Stephen Gaukroger -- Aristotelian natural philosophy : body, cause, nature / Dennis Des Chenes -- Descartes and Augustine / Catherine Wilson -- Descartes and the legacy of ancient scepticism / Casey Perin -- Mathematics and natural philosophy -- Descartes and Galileo : copernicanism and the metaphysical foundations of physics / Michael Friedman -- Explanation as confirmation in Descartes's natural philosophy / Ernan McMullin -- Descartes and mathematics / Paolo Mancosu -- Descartes's optics : light, the eye, and visual perception / Margaret J. Osler --I Epistemology and metaphysics -- Method / Murray Miles -- Descartes's use of doubt / David Owens -- Self-knowledge / Janet Broughton -- Descartes on true and false ideas / Deborah J. Brown -- Clear and distinct perception / Sarah Patterson -- Causation without intelligibility and causation without God in Descartes / Michael Della Rocca -- Descartes on substance / Vere Chappell -- The metaphysics of extension / Calvin Normore -- The role of God in Descartes's philosophy / John Cottingham -- The cartesian circle and the foundations of knowledge / John Carriero -- Innate ideas / Alan Nelson -- Descartes on the will and judgment / Lex Newman -- Omnipotence, modality and conceivability / Lilli Alanen -- Descartes's dualism / Marleen Rozemond -- The union and interaction of mind and body / Paul Hoffman -- Animals / Gary Hatfield -- How to engineer a human being : passions and functional explanation in Descartes / Amy M. Schmitter -- Descartes's ethics / Lisa Shapiro -- Descartes's legacy -- Descartes's legacy in the seventeenth century : problems and polemic / Thomas M. Lennon -- Contemporary reactions to Descartes's philosophy of mind / Quassim Cassam -- Descartes and the phenomenological tradition / Wayne M. Martin -- Our debt to Descartes / Barry Stroud

، Descartes, Rene, 6951-0561

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AU Broughton, Janet 1948-

AU Carriero, John Peter

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