Descartes in context : essays / Emanuela Scribano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scribano, Maria Emanuela, 1948- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

Italian

Subjects (All):

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Descartes, René.

Philosophy, Modern--17th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 260 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

Some essays originally published in Italian or French, now translated into English.

Summary:

This volume presents essays on Descartes by pre-eminent Italian historian of philosophy Emanuela Scribano. Originally written and published in French and Italian, these essays are translated into English for the first time. The essays focus on some pivotal theses in Cartesian philosophy: proofs of God's existence, free creation of eternal truths, error, animals as machines, occasionalism, examining them in light of the philosophical context and of classical writers such as Galen, scholastic authors such as Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Suárez, authors contemporary to Descartes, such as Campanella and Silhon, and philosophers who referred to Cartesian philosophy, such as La Forge and Malebranche.

Contents:

The idea of God

Descartes' Innatism as anti-Augustinianism

The knowledge of God in Descartes' letters

God and human mind

Divine deception in Descartes' Meditations

The Replies to the Seventh Set of Objections, the skeptic's duties, and the circle

What God cannot do. Descartes and the limits of divine power

Error

Descartes and false ideas

Descartes on dreamers, madmen, and amputees: a physiological reading of the Meditations

Descartes and free thinkers

Traces of the atheist: from Lessius to Descartes via Vanini, Mersenne, and Petit

Animals and clocks: Descartes against "weak minds"

Occasionalism against Descartes

Quod nescis quomodo fiat id non facis: Occasionalism against Descartes?

The return of Campanella: La Forge versus Cureau de La Chambre

Knowledge and causality: Malebranche's opponents.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Translated from the French and Italian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 10, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Scribano, Emanuela Descartes in Context

ISBN:

0-19-764958-0

0-19-764957-2

0-19-764956-4