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A collection of more than 30 specially commissioned essays, this volume surveys the work of the 17th-century philosopher-scientist commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, while integrating unique essays detailing the context and impact of his work. * Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on the work of Descartes * Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of skepticism, mind-body dualism, self-knowledge, innate ideas, substance, causality, God, and the nature of animals * Explores the philosophical significance of his contributions to mathematics and science * Concludes with a section on the impact of Descartes's work on subsequent philosophers
| ISBN | 1405121548 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9781405121545
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 1132 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Published in | Chicester | | Imprint | Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) | | Series ISSN | 38 | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Blackwell Companions to Philosophy | | Publication date | 02 Nov 2007 | | Height (mm) | 257 | | Library of Congress | B1875 | | Width (mm) | 183 | | DEWEY | 194 | | Spine width (mm) | 35 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 560 | | Alternative ISBN | 9780470696439 |
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| 1 | | Life and works by Stephen Gaukroger | | 3 | | 2 | | Aristotelian natural philosophy: body, cause, nature by Dennis Des Chene | | 17 | | 3 | | Descartes and Augustine by Catherine Wilson | | 33 | | 4 | | Descartes and the legacy of ancient skepticism by Casey Perin | | 52 | | 5 | | Descartes and Galileo: Copernicanism and the metaphysical foundations of physics by Michael Friedman | | 69 | | 6 | | Explanation as confirmation in Descartes's natural philosophy by Ernan McMullin | | 84 | | 7 | | Descartes and mathematics by Paolo Mancosu | | 103 | | 8 | | Descartes's optics: light, the eye, and visual perception by Margaret J. Osler | | 124 | | 9 | | Descartes's method by Murray Miles | | 145 | | 10 | | Descartes's use of doubt by David Owens | | 164 | | 11 | | Self-knowledge by Janet Broughton | | 179 | | 12 | | Descartes on true and false ideas by Deborah J. Brown | | 196 | | 13 | | Clear and distinct perception by Sarah Patterson | | 216 | | 14 | | Causation with intelligibility and causation without God in Descartes by Michael Della Rocca | | 235 | | 15 | | Descartes on substance by Vere Chappell | | 251 | | 16 | | Descartes and the metaphysics of extension by C. G. Normore | | 271 | | 17 | | The role of God in Descartes's philosophy by John Cottingham | | 288 | | 18 | | The Cartesian circle and the foundations of knowledge by John Carriero | | 302 | | 19 | | Cartesian innateness by Alan Nelson | | 319 | | 20 | | Descartes on the will in judgment by Lex Newman | | 334 | | 21 | | Omnipotence, modality, and conceivability by Lilli Alanen | | 353 | | | More... | | |
"Good companions fulfil two more duties - they provide better ways of understanding the familiar and they also defamiliarise it by encouraging new slants and alerting us to relatively ignored issues: this companion does both... A most attractive and wide-ranging addition to its field." (Reference Reviews, Issue 6 2008)  Be the first to write a customer review
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