Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy Through Cartesian ScienceThis volume collects some of the seminal essays on Descartes by Daniel Garber, one of the preeminent scholars of early-modern philosophy. A central theme unifying the volume is the interconnection between Descartes's philosophical and scientific interests, and the extent to which these two sides of the Cartesian program illuminate each other, a question rarely treated in the existing literature. This collection will be a mandatory purchase for any serious student of or professional working in 17th-century philosophy, history of science, or history of ideas. |
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... give them all a general thanks : You know who you are . I would also like to thank my wife , Susan Paul , and my children , Hannah and Elisabeth Garber - Paul , for their support . During the years that I have been working on these ...
... give them all a general thanks : You know who you are . I would also like to thank my wife , Susan Paul , and my children , Hannah and Elisabeth Garber - Paul , for their support . During the years that I have been working on these ...
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... give to those translations . Though I do not always cite them , I often do borrow from them in essays written after they became available . In the earlier essays , I made some use of earlier translations that they replaced . In par ...
... give to those translations . Though I do not always cite them , I often do borrow from them in essays written after they became available . In the earlier essays , I made some use of earlier translations that they replaced . In par ...
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... give a critical exposition of Descartes ' physical thought , and discuss the arguments and positions that Descartes offered in his writings on physics , mainly Le Monde ( 1633 ) and the Prin- cipia Philosophiae ( 1644 ) , paying special ...
... give a critical exposition of Descartes ' physical thought , and discuss the arguments and positions that Descartes offered in his writings on physics , mainly Le Monde ( 1633 ) and the Prin- cipia Philosophiae ( 1644 ) , paying special ...
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... gives rise to accusations of occasionalism in Descartes , and explicit arguments for occasionalism in some of his followers . I argue that the way in which Descartes conceives of divine activity leads him to reject a full occasionalism ...
... gives rise to accusations of occasionalism in Descartes , and explicit arguments for occasionalism in some of his followers . I argue that the way in which Descartes conceives of divine activity leads him to reject a full occasionalism ...
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... gives a general overview of the way in which Descartes ' metaphysics and epis- temology undermine Aristotelian ... give larger views of Descartes ' philosophy . In ( 13 ) " Descartes , or the Cultivation of the Intellect , " I present a ...
... gives a general overview of the way in which Descartes ' metaphysics and epis- temology undermine Aristotelian ... give larger views of Descartes ' philosophy . In ( 13 ) " Descartes , or the Cultivation of the Intellect , " I present a ...
Contents
DOES HISTORY HAVE A FUTURE? SOME REFLECTIONS ON BENNETT AND DOING PHILOSOPHY HISTORICALLY | 13 |
METHOD ORDER AND CERTAINTY | 31 |
DESCARTES AND METHOD IN 1637 | 33 |
A POINT OF ORDER ANALYSIS SYNTHESIS AND DESCARTES PRINCIPLES WITH LESLEY COHEN | 52 |
JB MORIN AND THE SECOND OBJECTIONS | 64 |
DESCARTES AND EXPERIMENT IN THE DISCOURSE AND ESSAYS | 85 |
DESCARTES ON KNOWLEDGE AND CERTAINTY FROM THE DISCOURS TO THE PRINCIPIA | 111 |
MIND BODY AND THE LAWS OF NATURE | 131 |
HOW GOD CAUSES MOTION DESCARTES DIVINE SUSTENANCE AND OCCASIONALISM | 189 |
DESCARTES AND OCCASIONALISM | 203 |
SEMEL IN VITA THE SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND TO DESCARTES MEDITATIONS | 221 |
FORMS AND QUALITIES IN THE SIXTH REPLIES | 257 |
LARGER VISIONS | 275 |
DESCARTES OR THE CULTIVATION OF THE INTELLECT | 277 |
EXPERIMENT COMMUNITY AND THE CONSTITUTION OF NATURE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 296 |
SOURCES | 329 |
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