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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... human being , who learns ( and forgets ) things , whose views develop and change over time , even if he himself is not always aware of that dimension of his thought . My historical temperament should not be taken to mean that I am ...
... human being , who learns ( and forgets ) things , whose views develop and change over time , even if he himself is not always aware of that dimension of his thought . My historical temperament should not be taken to mean that I am ...
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... human being consistent with his law of the conservation of quantity of motion . On that reading , Descartes is supposed to have held that the human will can change the direction of the motion of a body , but not its speed . Since ...
... human being consistent with his law of the conservation of quantity of motion . On that reading , Descartes is supposed to have held that the human will can change the direction of the motion of a body , but not its speed . Since ...
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... human being and the natural world led to a revolutionary conception of education , rejecting the authority of the book and the teacher for the authority of the intellect . Finally , in ( 14 ) “ Experiment , Community , and the ...
... human being and the natural world led to a revolutionary conception of education , rejecting the authority of the book and the teacher for the authority of the intellect . Finally , in ( 14 ) “ Experiment , Community , and the ...
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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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