Descartes [[electronic resource] ] : an intellectual biography / / Stephen Gaukroger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455740903321
• Autore: Gaukroger Stephen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 1-281-98093-5; 9786611980931; 0-19-151954-5; 0-585-12859-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (520p. ) : ill
• Disciplina: 194
• Soggetti: Philosophers - France; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Contents -- Chronological Table -- Introduction -- 1. 'A Learned and Eloquent Piety' -- Childhood, 1596-1606 -- The Christianization of Europe -- The Civilizing Process -- The Formation of a Gentilhomme -- The Demise of the Municipal Collège -- 2. An Education in Propriety, 1606-1618 -- La Flèche -- Christianity and the Classical Tradition -- Res Literaria, 1606-1611 -- The Philosophical Curriculum -- Dialectic, 1611-1612 -- Natural Philosophy and Mathematics, 1612-1613 -- Metaphysics and Ethics, 1613-1614 -- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: A Choice of Career, 1614-1618 -- 3. The Apprenticeship with Beeckman, 1618-1619 -- The Meeting with Beeckman -- Beeckman's Micro-Corpuscularianism -- Compendium Musicae -- Falling bodies -- Hydrostatics -- Proportional Compasses and the Idea of a Mathesis Universalis -- 4. The Search for Method, 1619-1625 -- Mirabilis scientiae fundamenta, November 1619 -- The Early Regulae, 1619/1620 -- Intuitus and the Doctrine of Clear and Distinct Ideas -- The Doctrine of Analysis -- Fundamentum inventi mirabilis -- Intermezzo, 1621-1625 -- 5. The Paris Years, 1625-1628 -- Libertine Paris -- The Discovery of the Law of Refraction -- ; Mersenne, Mechanism, and the Problem of Naturalism -- The Return to the Regulae, 1626 -- The Nature of Cognition -- The Representation of Algebra -- The Final Year in Paris -- 6. A New Beginning, 1629-1630 -- The Retreat from Society -- Grinding the Anaclastic -- The Formulation of a Metaphysics -- The Pappus Problem and the Classification of Curves -- Parhelia and the Origins of Le Monde -- The Dispute with Beeckman -- 7. A New System of the World, 1630-1633 -- The Structure of Le Monde -- A Corpuscular Theory of Matter -- The Laws of Nature -- The Construction of a New World -- The Nature of Light -- A Mechanistic Physiology -- Automata and Perceptual Cognition.; The Condemnation of Galileo and the Abandonment of Le Monde -- 8. The Years of Consolidation, 1634-1640 -- Amsterdam, 1634-1635 -- An Exercise in Autobiography, 1635-1636 -- Scepticism and the Foundations of a New Metaphysics -- Publication and Critical Response -- An Indian Summer, 1637-1639 -- Meditationes de Prima Philosophia -- Public Brawl and Personal Grief, 1639-1640 -- 9. The Defence of Natural Philosophy, 1640-1644 -- Religious Controversy -- Recherche de la verité versus Principia Philosopbiae -- A Textbook of Natural Philosophy -- The Task of Legitimation -- The Legacy of the Principia -- 10. Melancholia and the Passions, 1643-1650 -- 'A Doctor of the Soul' -- Mind in Body -- A General Theory of the Passions -- In Search of Peace, 1646-1649 -- The Move to Sweden -- Death and Dismemberment -- Notes -- Biographical Sketches -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The results of Descartes' work in mathematics and science are still of benefit to science today. This book shows how he developed his ideas and how his work informed the later studies in philosophy for which he is renowned.