Descartes in the Classroom : Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in the Early Modern Age / edited by Davide Cellamare, Mattia Mantovani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cellamare, Davide, editor.

Mantovani, Mattia, 1966- editor.

Series:

Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science ; 35.

Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science Series ; Volume 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (585 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv, [2023]

Summary:

The volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes’ philosophy in the early modern age, across the borders of countries, and confessions, both within and without the university setting – public conferences, private tutorials, distance learning by letter.

The volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes’ philosophy in the early modern age. Its twenty chapters explore the clash between Descartes’ “new” philosophy and the established pedagogical practices and institutional concerns, as well as the various strategies employed by Descartes’ supporters in order to communicate his ideas to their students. The volume considers a vast array of topics, sources, and institutions, across the borders of countries and confessions, both within and without the university setting (public conferences, private tutorials, distance learning by letter) and enables us thereby to reconsider from a fresh perspective the history of early modern philosophy and education.

Contents:

List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction / Davide Cellamare and Mattia Mantovani

1. Descartes and the Classroom / Theo Verbeek

2. The Philosophical Fulcrum of Seventeenth-Century Leiden: Pedagogical Innovation and Philosophical Novelty in Adriaan Heereboord / Howard Hotson

3. Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in Leiden: Adriaan Heereboord (1613-1661) and Johannes de Raey (1622-1702) / Antonella Del Prete

4. Can Philosophical Knowledge be Taught? The Copenhagen Manuscript Annotata in Principia (1658) by Johannes de Raey / Domenico Collacciani

5. “Let Descartes Speak Dutch”: Spinoza's Circle Teaching Cartesianism / Henri Krop

6. Patronage as a Means to End a University Controversy: the Conclusion of Two Cartesian Disputes at Frankfurt an der Oder (1656 and 1660) / Pietro Daniel Omodeo

7. Cartesian and Anti-Cartesian Disputations and Corollaries at Utrecht University, 1650–1670 / Erik-Jan Bos

8. Between Boyle and Descartes: Burchard de Volder's Experimental Lectures at Leiden, 1676-1678 / Andrea Strazzoni

9. Medicine and the Mind in the Teaching of Theodoor Craanen (1621-1690) / Davide Cellamare

10. Cartesius Triumphatus: Gerard de Vries and Opposing Descartes at the University of Utrecht / Daniel Garber

11. Debating Cartesian Philosophy on Both Sides of the Channel: Johannes Schuler's (1619-1674) Plea for Libertas Philosophandi / Igor Agostini

12. DESCARTES BY LETTER – TEACHING CARTESIANISM IN MID-SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CAMBRIDGE: HENRY MORE, THOMAS CLARKE AND ANNE CONWAY / Sarah Hutton

13. Teaching Descartes' Ethics in London and Cambridge / Roger Ariew

14. Teaching Magnetism in a Cartesian World, 1650-1700 / Christoph Sander

15. The Anatomy of a Condemnation: Descartes' Theory of Perception and the Louvain Affair, 1637-1671 / Mattia Mantovani

16. Descartes' Theory of Tides in the Louvain Classroom / Carla Rita Palmerino

17. Traces of the Logique de Port-Royal in the Louvain Logic Curricula / Steven Coesemans

18. Cartesianism and Women's Education / Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin

19. Rohault's Private Lessons on Cosmology / Mihnea Dobre

20. 1690s French Cartesianisms: The Textbooks of Regis and Pourchot / Tad Schmaltz

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Cellamare, Davide Descartes in the Classroom

ISBN:

9789004524897

9004524894

OCLC:

1351201714

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004524897 DOI