| Description |
x, 767 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [751]-757) and index. |
| Contents |
9. Neo-Aristotle and method: between Zabarella and Descartes / Timothy J. Reiss -- 10. Figuring things out: figurate problem-solving in the early Descartes / Dennis L. Sepper -- 11. The rainbow: a privileged epistemological model / Jean-Robert Armogathe -- 12. Descartes opticien: the construction of the law of refraction and the manufacture of its physical rationales, 1618-29 / John A. Schuster -- 13. A 'science for honnetes hommes': La Recherche de la Verite and the deconstruction of experimental knowledge / Alberto Guillermo Ranea -- 14. Descartes, experiments, and a first generation Cartesian, Jacques Rohault / Trevor McClaughlin -- 15. Cartesian physiology / Annie Bitbol-Hesperies |
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16. The resources of a mechanist physiology and the problem of goal-directed processes / Stephen Gaukroger -- 17. Betes-machines / Katherine Morris -- 18. Descartes' cardiology and its reception in English physiology / Peter Anstey -- 19. Cartesian imagination and perspectival art / Betsy Newell Decyk -- 20. From sparks of truth to the glow of possibility / Peter Schouls -- 21. Descartes' theory of visual spatial perception / Celia Wolf-Devine -- 22. Symposium on Descartes on perceptual cognition: introduction / John Sutton -- 22a. Descartes and formal signs / David Behan -- 22b. Descartes' startling doctrine of the reverse-sign relation / Peter Slezak -- 22c. The role of inner objects in perception / Celia Wolf-Devine |
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22d. Descartes, Locke, and 'direct-realism' / Yasuhiko Tomida -- 22e. Replies to my fellow symposiasts / John Volton -- 23. Descartes' intellectual and corporeal memories / Veronique M. Foti -- 24. The senses as witnesses / Gordon Baker -- 25. Descartes' naturalism about the mental / Gary Hatfield -- 26. Descartes and the corporeal mind: some implications of the Regius affair / Catherine Wilson -- 27. Perrault's criticisms of the Cartesian theory of the soul / John P. Wright -- 28. The body and the brain / John Sutton -- 29. Life and health in Cartesian natural philosophy / Dennis des Chene -- 30. The texture of thought: why Descartes' Meditationes is meditational, and why it matters / Dennis I. Sepper. |
| Subject(s) |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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Philosophy of nature.
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| Alternate Author |
Gaukroger, Stephen.
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Schuster, John Andrew, 1947-
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Sutton, John, 1965-
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