A companion to Descartes / edited by Janet Broughton and John Carriero.

"A collection of more than 30 newly commissioned essays, this volume surveys the work of the 17th-century philosopher-scientist commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy while integrating unique essays detailing the context and impact of his work. Covers the full range of historical...

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Other Authors: Broughton, Janet, 1948- (Editor), Carriero, John Peter (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Series:Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 38.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Life and works /  |r Stephen Gaukroger --  |g 2.  |t Aristotelian natural philosophy: body, cause, nature /  |r Dennis Des Chene --  |g 3.  |t Descartes and Augustine /  |r Catherine Wilson --  |g 4.  |t Descartes and the legacy of ancient skepticism /  |r Casey Perin --  |g 5.  |t Descartes and Galileo: Copernicanism and the metaphysical foundations of physics /  |r Michael Friedman --  |g 6.  |t Explanation as confirmation in Descartes's natural philosophy /  |r Ernan McMullin --  |g 7.  |t Descartes and mathematics /  |r Paolo Mancosu --  |g 8.  |t Descartes's optics: light, the eye, and visual perception /  |r Margaret J. Osler --  |g 9.  |t Descartes's method /  |r Murray Miles --  |g 10.  |t Descartes's use of doubt /  |r David Owens --  |g 11.  |t Self-knowledge /  |r Janet Broughton --  |g 12.  |t Descartes on true and false ideas /  |r Deborah J. Brown --  |g 13.  |t Clear and distinct perception /  |r Sarah Patterson --  |g 14.  |t Causation with intelligibility and causation without God in Descartes /  |r Michael Della Rocca --  |g 15.  |t Descartes on substance /  |r Vere Chappell --  |g 16.  |t Descartes and the metaphysics of extension /  |r C. G. Normore --  |g 17.  |t The role of God in Descartes's philosophy /  |r John Cottingham --  |g 18.  |t The Cartesian circle and the foundations of knowledge /  |r John Carriero --  |g 19.  |t Cartesian innateness /  |r Alan Nelson --  |g 20.  |t Descartes on the will in judgment /  |r Lex Newman --  |g 21.  |t Omnipotence, modality, and conceivability /  |r Lilli Alanen --  |g 22.  |t Descartes's dualism /  |r Marleen Rozemond --  |g 23.  |t The union and interaction of mind and body /  |r Paul Hoffman --  |g 24.  |t Animals /  |r Gary Hatfield --  |g 25.  |t How to engineer a human being: passions and functional explanation in Descartes /  |r Amy M. Schmitter --  |g 26.  |t Descartes's ethics /  |r Lisa Shapiro --  |g 27.  |t Descartes's legacy in the seventeenth century: problems and polemic /  |r Thomas M. Lennon --  |g 28.  |t Contemporary reactions to Descartes's philosophy of mind /  |r Quassim Cassam --  |g 29.  |t Descartes and the phenomenological tradition /  |r Wayne M. Martin --  |g 30.  |t Our debt to Descartes /  |r Barry Stroud. 
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