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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449773703321

Titolo

Descartes' natural philosophy / / edited by Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster, and John Sutton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-60092-5

0-203-25118-0

1-280-09910-0

0-203-46301-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (780 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; ; 3

Altri autori (Persone)

GaukrogerStephen

SchusterJohn Andrew <1947->

SuttonJohn <1965->

Disciplina

113/.092

Soggetti

Philosophy of nature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [751]-757) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; References to Descartes' works; Introduction; Mechanics and cosmology; Descartes and the natural philosophy of the Coimbra  commentaries; Descartes' debt to Beeckman: inspiration, cooperation,  conflict; The foundational role of hydrostatics and statics in  Descartes' natural philosophy; Force, determination and impact; A different Descartes: Descartes and the programme for a  mathematical physics in his correspondence; Causal powers and occasionalism from Descartes to  Malebranche

The invention of nature: Descartes and RegiusThe influence of Cartesian cosmology in England; Method, optics, and the role of experiment; Neo-Aristotle and method: between Zabarella and Descartes; Figuring things out: figurate problem-solving in the  early Descartes; The rainbow: a privileged epistemological model; Descartes opticien: the construction of the law of refraction  and the manufacture of its physical rationales, 1618-29; A 'science for honntes hommes': La Recherche de la Verite and the deconstruction of experimental



knowledge

Descartes, experiments, and a first generation Cartesian,  Jacques RohaultPhysiology; Cartesian physiology; The resources of a mechanist physiology and the problem  of goal-directed processes; Btes-machines; Descartes' cardiology and its reception in English  physiology; Imagination and representation; Cartesian imagination and perspectival art; From sparks of truth to the glow of possibility; Descartes' theory of visual spatial perception; Symposium on Descartes on perceptual cognition:  introduction; Descartes and formal signs; Descartes' startling doctrine of the reverse-sign relation

The role of inner objects in perceptionDescartes, Locke, and 'direct realism'; Replies to my fellow symposiasts; Mind and body, thought and sensation; Descartes' intellectual and corporeal memories; The senses as witnesses; Descartes' naturalism about the mental; Descartes and the corporeal mind: some implications  of the Regius affair; Perrault's criticisms of the Cartesian theory of the soul; The body and the brain; Life and health in Cartesian natural philosophy; The texture of thought: why Descartes' Meditationes is  meditational, and why it matters; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The most comprehensive collection of essays on Descartes' scientific writings ever published, this volume offers a detailed reassessment of Descartes' scientific work and its bearing on his philosophy.  The 35 essays, written by some of the world's leading scholars, cover topics as diverse as optics, cosmology and medicine, and will be of vital interest to all historians of philosophy or science.