A companion to Descartes /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
2008.
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| Series: | Blackwell companions to philosophy ;
38. |
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- Life and works / Stephen Gaukroger
- Aristotelian natural philosophy : body, cause, nature / Dennis Des Chenes
- Descartes and Augustine / Catherine Wilson
- Descartes and the legacy of ancient skepticism / Casey Perin
- Descartes and Galileo : Copernicanism and the metaphysical foundations of physics / Michael Friedman
- Explanation as confirmation in Descartes's natural philosophy / Ernan McMullin
- Descartes and mathematics / Paolo Mancosu
- Descartes's optics : light, the eye, and visual perception / Margaret J. Osler
- Descartes's method / Murray Miles
- Descartes's use of doubt / David Owens
- Self-knowledge / Janet Broughton
- Descartes on true and false ideas / Deborah J. Brown
- Clear and distinct perception / Sarah Patterson
- Causation without intelligibility and causation without God in Descartes / Michael Della Rocca
- Descartes on substance / Vere Chappell
- Descartes and the metaphysics of extension / C.G. Normore
- The role of God in Descartes's philosophy / John Cottingham
- The cartesian circle and the foundations of knowledge / John Carriero
- Cartesian innateness / Alan Nelson
- Descartes on the will and judgment / Lex Newman
- Omnipotence, modality, and conceivability / Lilli Alanen
- Descartes's dualism / Marleen Rozemond
- The union and interaction of mind and body / Paul Hoffman
- Animals / Gary Hatfield
- How to engineer a human being : passions and functional explanation in Descartes / Amy M. Schmitter
- Descartes's ethics / Lisa Shapiro
- Descartes's legacy in the seventeenth century : problems and polemic / Thomas M. Lennon
- Contemporary reactions to Descartes's philosophy of mind / Quassim Cassam
- Descartes and the phenomenological tradition / Wayne M. Martin
- Our debt to Descartes / Barry Stroud.