| Title |
Descartes on forms and mechanisms / Helen Hattab. |
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| Imprint |
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
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| Description |
x, 236 pages ; 24 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Descartes' arguments against the substantial form -- Aquinas' introduction of the substantial form -- Suarez's defense of the substantial form -- Sanchez's skeptical humanist attack -- The mechanical alternative to substantial forms -- Cartesian science and the principles of Aristotelian mechanics -- Atoms, modes, and other heresies -- Descartes' metaphysical alternative to substantial forms. |
| Subject(s) |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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Mechanism (Philosophy)
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Form (Philosophy)
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Scholasticism.
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