A companion to Descartes / edited by Janet Broughton and John Carriero.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Broughton, Janet, 1948-

Carriero, John Peter.

Series:

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 38.

Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, French.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Descartes, René.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (558 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of more than 30 specially commissioned essays, this volume surveys the work of the 17th-century philosopher-scientist commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, while integrating unique essays detailing the context and impact of his work. Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on the work of DescartesDiscusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of skepticism, mind-body dualism, self-knowledge, innate ideas, substance, causality, God, and the nature of animalsExplores the philosophical significance of his contr

Contents:

Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: The Intellectual Context; Chapter 1: Life and Works; Chapter 2: Aristotelian Natural Philosophy: Body, Cause, Nature; Chapter 3: Descartes and Augustine; Chapter 4: Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient Skepticism; Part II: Mathematics and Natural Philosophy; Chapter 5: Descartes and Galileo: Copernicanism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Physics; Chapter 6: Explanation as Confirmation in Descartes's Natural Philosophy; Chapter 7: Descartes and Mathematics

Chapter 8: Descartes's Optics: Light, the Eye, and Visual PerceptionPart III: Epistemology and Metaphysics; Chapter 9: Descartes's Method; Chapter 10: Descartes's Use of Doubt; Chapter 11: Self-Knowledge; Chapter 12: Descartes on True and False Ideas; Chapter 13: Clear and Distinct Perception; Chapter 14: Causation Without Intelligibility and Causation Without God in Descartes; Chapter 15: Descartes on Substance; Chapter 16: Descartes and the Metaphysics of Extension; Chapter 17: The Role of God in Descartes's Philosophy; Chapter 18: The Cartesian Circle and the Foundations of Knowledge

Chapter 19: Cartesian InnatenessChapter 20: Descartes on the Will in Judgment; Chapter 21: Omnipotence, Modality, and Conceivability; Chapter 22: Descartes's Dualism; Chapter 23: The Union and Interaction of Mind and Body; Chapter 24: Animals; Chapter 25: How to Engineer a Human Being: Passions and Functional Explanation in Descartes; Chapter 26: Descartes's Ethics; Part IV: Descartes's Legacy; Chapter 27: Descartes's Legacy in the Seventeenth Century: Problems and Polemic; Chapter 28: Contemporary Reactions to Descartes's Philosophy of Mind

Chapter 29: Descartes and the Phenomenological TraditionChapter 30: Our Debt to Descartes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611069117

9780470984550

0470984554

9781782684497

1782684492

9781281069115

1281069116

9780470696439

0470696435

9781405177252

140517725X

9780470765845

0470765844

OCLC:

232611544