| Title |
A companion to Descartes / edited by Janet Broughton and John Carriero. |
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| Imprint |
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2008. |
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| Description |
xvi, 542 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to philosophy ; 38.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The intellectual context -- Life and works / Stephen Gaukroger -- Aristotelian natural philosophy : body, cause, nature / Dennis Des Chene -- Descartes and Augustine / Catherine Wilson -- Descartes and the legacy of ancient scepticism / Casey Perin -- Mathematics and natural philosophy -- Descartes and Galileo : Copernicanism and the metaphysical foundations of physics / Michael Friedman -- Explanation as confirmation in Descartes's natural philosophy / Ernan McMullin -- Descartes and mathematics / Paolo Mancosu -- Descartes's optics : light, the eye, and visual perception / Margaret J. Osler -- Epistemology and metaphysics -- Descartes's method / Murray Miles -- Descartes's use of doubt / David Owens -- Self-knowledge / Janet Broughton -- Descartes on true and false ideas / Deborah J. Brown -- Clear and distinct perception / Sarah Patterson -- Causation without intelligibility and causation without God in Descartes / Michael Della Rocca -- Descartes on substance / Vere Chappell -- Descartes and the metaphysics of extension / C.G. Normore -- The role of God in Descartes's philosophy / John Cottingham -- The Cartesian circle and the foundations of knowledge / John Carriero -- Cartesian innateness / Alan Nelson -- Descartes on the will and judgment / Lex Newman -- Omnipotence, modality and conceivability / Lilli Alanen -- Descartes's dualism / Marleen Rozemond -- The union and interaction of mind and body / Paul Hoffman -- Animals / Gary Hatfield -- How to engineer a human being : passions and functional explanation in Descartes / Amy M. Schmitter -- Descartes's ethics / Lisa Shapiro -- Descartes's legacy -- Descartes's legacy in the seventeenth century : problems and polemic / Thomas M. Lennon -- Contemporary reactions to Descartes's philosophy of mind / Quassim Cassam -- Descartes and the phenomenological tradition / Wayne M. Martin -- Our debt to Descartes / Barry Stroud. |
| Subject(s) |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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| Alternate Author |
Broughton, Janet, 1948-
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Carriero, John Peter.
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