Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René DescartesStephen Voss Oxford University Press, 1993 - 342 من الصفحات A major contribution to Descartes studies, this book provides a panorama of cutting-edge scholarship ranging widely over Descartes's own primary concerns: metaphysics, physics, and its applications. It is at once a tool for scholars and--steering clear of technical Cartesian science--an accessible resource that will delight nonspecialists. The contributors include Edwin Curley, Willis Doney, Alan Gabbey, Daniel Garber, Marjorie Grene, Gary Hatfield, Marleen Rozemond, John Schuster, Dennis Sepper, Stephen Voss, Stephen Wagner, Margaret Welson, Jean Marie Beyssade, Michelle Beyssade, Michel Henry, Evert van Leeuwen, Jean-Luc Marion, Geneviève Rodis-Lewis, and Jean-Pierre Séris. Combining new textual sensitivity with attentiveness to history, they represent the best established scholars and most exciting new voices, including both English speaking and newly-translated writers. Part I examines the foundations of Descartes's philosophy: Cartesian certainty; the phenomenology of the cogito and its modulations in the passions; and the defensibility and comprehensibility of the Cartesian God. The second part examines Descartes's groundbreaking metaphysics: mind's distinctness from and interaction with body; imagination; perception; and language. Part III examines Cartesian science: the revolutionary rhetoric of the Rules and the Discourse; the metaphysical foundations of physics; the interplay of rationalism and empiricism; the mechanics and human biology that flow from Descartes's physics. |
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Introduction | 3 |
Its Foundations in the Cogito | 9 |
Privileged Truth or Exemplary Truth? | 31 |
The Soul According to Descartes | 40 |
Remarks on Michel Henrys | 52 |
Incomprehensibility | 85 |
The Minds Capacities | 95 |
Simplicity and the Seat of the Soul | 128 |
Descartes on the Perception of Primary Qualities | 162 |
Language and Machine in the Philosophy of Descartes | 177 |
Its Rhetoric Principles and Fruits | 193 |
Method Discourse and the Act of Knowing | 224 |
From Metaphysics to Physics | 242 |
Reason Nature and God in Descartes | 259 |
Descartes and Experiment in the Discourse and Essays | 288 |
Descartes Plemp | 324 |
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