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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808921003321

Autore

Sorell Tom

Titolo

Descartes : a very short introduction / / Tom Sorell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-281-76995-9

9786611769956

0-19-154036-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (116 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Very short introductions ; ; 30

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987, in series: Past masters.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Copyright Page -- Very Short Introduction -- Title Page -- Contents -- Texts and Translations -- List of Illustrations -- 1 Matter and Metaphysics -- 2 The Discovery of a Vocation -- 3 One Science, One Method -- 4 'Absolutes', Simple Natures, and Problems -- 5 Roaming about in the World -- 6 Paris -- 7 The Suppressed Physics -- 8 Three Specimens of a Method -- 9 A New 'Logic' -- 10 The Need for Metaphysics -- 11 The Meditations -- 12 Doubt without Scepticism? -- 13 The Theologians and the God of Physics -- 14 Ideas -- 15 The Mind -- 16 Body -- 17 The Physics made Public -- 18 The 'Other Sciences' -- 19 Last Days -- 20 Descartes's Ghost -- Further Reading -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Tom Sorell shows Descartes as an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his metaphysics to support his programme in the sciences.