Essays on the philosophy and science of Rene Descartes /

These essays by leading Descartes scholars, previously unpublished in English, represent an overview of contemporary research on Descartes' philosophy and science.

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Other Authors: Voss, Stephen, 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
Series:OUP E-Books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Certainty : psychological, moral, and metaphysical / Edwin Curley
  • The cogito : privileged truth or exemplary truth? / Michelle Beyssade
  • The soul according to Descartes / Michel Henry
  • Generosity and phenomenology : remarks on Michel Henry's interpretation of the Cartesian cogito / Jean-Luc Marion
  • Did Caterus misunderstand Descartes's ontological proof? / Willis Doney
  • On the idea of God : incomprehensibility or incompatibilities? / Jean-Marie Beyssade
  • The role of the intellect in Descartes's case for the incorporeity of the mind / Marleen Rozemond
  • Mind-body interaction in Descartes / Stephen I. Wagner
  • Simplicity and the seat of the soul / Stephen Voss
  • Ingenium, memory art, and the unity of imaginative knowing in the early Descartes / Dennis L. Sepper
  • Descartes on the perception of primary qualities / Margaret D. Wilson.
  • Language and machine in the philosophy of Descartes / Jean-Pierre Séris
  • Whatever should we do with the Cartesian method? : reclaiming Descartes for the history of science / John A. Schuster
  • Method, discourse, and the act of knowing / Evert van Leeuwen
  • From metaphysics to physics / Geneviève Rodis-Lewis
  • Reason, nature, and God in Descartes / Gary Hatfield
  • Descartes and experiment in the Discourse and Essays / Daniel Garber
  • Descartes's physics and Descartes's mechanics : chicken and egg? / Alan Gabbey
  • The heart and blood : Descartes, Plemp and Harvey / Marjorie Grene.