04679oam 2200673I 450 991044977370332120200520144314.01-134-60092-50-203-25118-01-280-09910-00-203-46301-310.4324/9780203463017 (CKB)1000000000002048(EBL)167038(OCoLC)264437622(SSID)ssj0000293696(PQKBManifestationID)11234353(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293696(PQKBWorkID)10302529(PQKB)11305355(MiAaPQ)EBC167038(Au-PeEL)EBL167038(CaPaEBR)ebr10070614(CaONFJC)MIL9910(OCoLC)57436726(EXLCZ)99100000000000204820180706d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDescartes' natural philosophy /edited by Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster, and John SuttonLondon ;New York :Routledge,2000.1 online resource (780 p.)Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ;3Description based upon print version of record.0-415-51070-8 0-415-21993-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [751]-757) and index.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 MalebrancheThe 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 knowledgeDescartes, 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 relationThe 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; IndexThe 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.Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ;3.Philosophy of natureElectronic books.Philosophy of nature.113/.092Gaukroger Stephen507374Schuster John Andrew1947-870211Sutton John1965-870212FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910449773703321Descartes' natural philosophy1942722UNINA