Descartes' natural philosophy

edited by Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster and John Sutton

The most comprehensive collection on Descartes' scientific writings ever published, this volume offers a detailed reassessment of his scientific work and its bearing on his philosophy. Written by some of the world's leading scholars, the book focuses on Descartes as a pioneer of the mechanical philosophy, and practitioner of mathematics, mechanics, optics, anatomy, physiology and psycho-physiology. The collection looks at Decartes' work in the sciences as an aspect of his natural-philosophical agenda. Among the key topics examined are: * the central place of medicine in Descartes' overall project * the connections between his investigations of specific psychological capacities and his ethics of self-government * the debates and controversies into which he and his followers were drawn, and their role in shaping Cartesian natural philosophy By placing natural philosophy, rather than a skeptically-driven epistemology, at the centre of Descartes' concerns, this book subjects many central themes in Cartesian philosophy to fundamental reassessment. It will therefore be of vital interest to all historians of philosophy or science. Peter Anstey, University of Sydney Jean-Robert Armogathe, Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes Gordon Baker, St. John's College, Oxford David Behan, Agnes Scott College

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  • Introduction Mechanics and Cosmology 1. Descartes and the natural philosophy of the Coimbra commentaries Dennis Des Chene 2. Descartes' debt to Beeckman: inspiration, cooperation, conflict Klaas Van Berkel 3. The foundational role of hydrostatics and statics in Descartes' natural philosophy Stephen Gaukroger 4. Force, determination and impact Peter MaLaughlin 5. A different Descartes: Descartes' programme for a mathematical physics in his correspondence Daniel Garber 6. Casual powers and occasionalism from Descartes to Malebranche Desmond Clarje 7. Modelling nature: Descartes versus Reigus Theo Verbeek 8. The influence of Cartesian cosmology in England Peter Harrison Method, Optics, and the Role of Experiment 9. NeoAristotle and method: between Zabarella and Descartes Timothy Reiss 10. Figuring things out: figurate problem-solving in the early Descartes Dennis Sepper 11. The theory of the rainbow Jean-Robert Armogathe 12. Descartes' opticien: the construction of the law of refraction and the manufacture of its physical rationales, 1618-1629 John A. Schuster 13. A 'science for honneteshommes': La Recherche de la Verite and the deconstruction of experimental knowledge Alberto Guillermo Ranea 14. Descartes, experiments, and a first generation Cartesian, Jacques Rohault Trevor McLaughlin 15. Cartesian physiology Annie Bitbol-Hesperies 16. The resources of a mechanist physiology and the problem of goal-directed processes Stephen Gaukroger 17. Betes machines Katherine Morris 18. Descartes' cardiology and its reception in English physiology Peter Anstey Imagination and Representation 19. Descartes' theory of imagination and perspectival art Betsy Newell Decyk 20. From sparks of truth to the glow of possibility Peter Schouls 21. Descartes' theory of visual spatial perception Celia Wolf-Devine 22. Symposium on Descartes on perceptual cognition. Introduction John Sutton Descartes and Formal Signs David Behan Descartes' startling doctrine of the reverse sign relation Peter Slezak Bibliography

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書名 Descartes' natural philosophy
著作者等 Gaukroger, Stephen
Schuster, John Andrew
Sutton, John
Schuster John (University of New South Wales Australia)
Sutton John (MacQuarie University Australia)
etc.
シリーズ名 Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy
出版元 Routledge
刊行年月 2000
ページ数 x, 767 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 0415219930
NCID BA47807954
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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