LEADER 04715nam 22006974a 450 001 9910809099503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-60091-7 010 $a1-134-60092-5 010 $a0-203-25118-0 010 $a1-280-09910-0 010 $a0-203-46301-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203463017 035 $a(CKB)1000000000002048 035 $a(EBL)167038 035 $a(OCoLC)264437622 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000293696 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11234353 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293696 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10302529 035 $a(PQKB)11305355 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC167038 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL167038 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10070614 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL9910 035 $a(OCoLC)57436726 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000002048 100 $a19991122e20022000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDescartes' natural philosophy /$fedited by Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster, and John Sutton 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (780 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ;$v3 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-51070-8 311 $a0-415-21993-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [751]-757) and index. 327 $aBook 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aDescartes, 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 327 $aThe 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 330 $aThe most comprehensive collection of essays on Descartes' scientific writings ever published, this volume offers a detailed reassessment of Descartes' scientific work and its bearing on his philosophy. The 35 essays, written by some of the world's leading scholars, cover topics as diverse as optics, cosmology and medicine, and will be of vital interest to all historians of philosophy or science. 410 0$aRoutledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ;$v3. 606 $aPhilosophy of nature 615 0$aPhilosophy of nature. 676 $a113/.092 701 $aGaukroger$b Stephen$0507374 701 $aSchuster$b John Andrew$f1947-$01655154 701 $aSutton$b John$f1965-$01655155 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809099503321 996 $aDescartes' natural philosophy$94007414 997 $aUNINA