Branching off : the early moderns in quest for the unity of knowledge / Vlad Alexandrescu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexandrescu, Vlad.

Series:

Foundations of modern thought ; v. 1.

Foundations of modern thought ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of--History--17th century.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Science--Philosophy.

Science.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650--Criticism and interpretation.

Descartes, René.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bucharest [Romania] : Zeta Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Contents; Foreword - Vlad Alexandrescu; Mathesis, Mathematics and Method in Descartes's Regulae: A Reprise - Nathan D. Smith; Science du monde et théorie de la science dans les Principia Philosophiae de Descartes - Elodie Cassan; The Double Question of the Individuation of Physical Bodies in Descartes - Vlad Alexandrescu; Descartes, Leibniz, and Some Scholastics on The Principle of Individuation - Roger Ariew; Descartes and the internal senses: on memory and remembrance - Lucian Petrescu

The unity of knowledge: natural-philosophical foundations of Spinoza's politico-theology - Stephen GaukrogerLeibniz, Theology and the Mechanical Philosophy - Daniel Garber; John Lockeon the Study of Nature - Sorana Corneanu; La Panacea Philosophica de Johann Heinrich Alsted: un projet architectonique d'accès au savoir - Massimiliano Savini; The Fascination of Solomon's House in Seventeenth Century England: Baconianism Revisited - Dana Jalobeanu

« Toute hyperbole tend à nous amener à la vérité par l'excès de la vérité, c'est-à-dire parle mensonge » : les parcours hyperboliques qui amènent à la vérité de Balzac à Descartes - Giulia BelgioiosoCaterus on God as ens a se - Igor Agostini; Descartes and Henry Moreon Living Bodies- Justin E. H. Smith; The Scientific Journals of the Seventeenth Century: Cartesianism in the Journal des Sçavans and the Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1670 - Mihnea Dobre; Kenelm Digby and the Weapon Salve in Seventeenth Century England- Eric Lewis; Leibniz and Locke on Natural Kinds- Brandon C. Look

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

973-1997-43-1

OCLC:

940510959