Descartes : a very short introduction / / Tom Sorell

• Autore: Sorell Tom
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (116 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 194
• Soggetto topico: Science - Philosophy - History - 17th century
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Descartes
• ISBN: 1-281-76995-9; 9786611769956; 0-19-154036-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910957362003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Very short introductions ; ; 30.