LEADER 04799nam 2200469Ia 450 001 9910807049703321 005 20240416064807.0 010 0 $a0191519545 010 0 $a9780191519543 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7036118 035 $a(CKB)24235098300041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3052887 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4701662 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3052887 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10274577 035 $a(OCoLC)43476505 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924235098300041 100 $a19940721d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDescartes $ean intellectual biography /$fStephen Gaukroger 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford $cClarendon Press ;$aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1995 215 $axx, 499 p. $cill 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Preface -- 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. 327 $aThe 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. 330 $aRené Descartes (1596-1650) is the father of modern philosophy, and one of the greatest thinkers of all time. His unique contribution to Western thought covers not only philosophy but also science and mathematics, though his most famous project was the exploration of the foundations of human knowledge, starting from the formula Cogito ergo sum, `I am thinking therefore I exist'.This is the first intellectual biography of Descartes in English. Stephen Gaukroger provides a rich and authoritative account of Descartes' intellectual and personal development, understood in its historical context, and offers a reassessment of all aspects of his life and work. 606 $aPhilosophers$zFrance$vBiography 615 0$aPhilosophers 676 $a194 B 676 $a194 700 $aGaukroger$b Stephen$0507374 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910807049703321 996 $aDescartes$9780453 997 $aUNINA