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anti-Cartesianism
Antonella Del Prete
Cartesian dualism
Cartesian Metaphysics
Cartesian metaphysics reception
Cartesian Natural Philosophy
Cartesian Philosophy
Cartesian Tree
Cartesianism
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Christoph Luthy
Claude Clerselier
David Gorlaeus
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Delphine Antoine-Mahut
Delphine Bellis
Desmond M. Clarke
Discours De La
Disputationes Metaphysicae
Dutch Cartesianism
early modern philosophy
Emanuela Scribano
Enlightenment thought
Ens Qua Ens
Entia Realia
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Ernst Cassirer
Gaston Milhaud
Gisbertus Voetius
God's Immutability
God’s Immutability
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Henricus Regius
history and philosophy of science
history of science
Isaac Newton
Jacques Rohault
Jean-Pascal Anfray
Johannes De Raey
Leibniz
Louis De La Forge
Louis Liard
Mariafranca Spallanzani
Mathesis Universalis
Meditations
Metaphysical Physics
Metaphysics
Mogens Laerke
natural philosophy
naturalized epistemology
Nicolaus Taurellus
ontology in philosophy
Ordinary Concurrence
Otto Casmann
Philippe Hamou
Physics
Pierre Daniel Huet
Pierre Duhem
Pierre Girard
Principia Philosophiae
Rene Descartes
Robert Boyle
scientific epistemology
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Sophie Roux
Traite de l'Homme
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Victor Cousin

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138351448
  • Weight: 720g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 17 Sep 2018
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes’ philosophy. According to the standard account, Descartes modified the objects of metaphysics and physics and inverted the order in which these two disciplines were traditionally studied. This book challenges the standard account in which Descartes prioritizes metaphysics over physics. It does so by taking into consideration the historical reception of Descartes and the ways in which Descartes himself reacted to these receptions in his own lifetime. The book stresses the diversity of these receptions by taking into account not only Cartesianisms but also anti-Cartesianisms, and by showing how they retroactively highlighted different aspects of Descartes’ works and theoretical choices. The historical aspect of the volume is unique in that it not only analyzes different constructions of Descartes that emerged in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, but also reflects on how his work was first read by philosophers across Europe. Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a fresh and up-to-date contribution to this important debate in early modern philosophy.

About
Delphine Antoine-Mahut is Professor of Early Modern Philosophy at the ENS, Lyon. Her research focuses on the tribulations – adventures and misadventures – of Cartesian dualism between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century. She is especially interested by the intersections of metaphysics and physiology. Sophie Roux is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the École Normale Supérieure. She published extensively on natural philosophy in the Early Modern period, but also in philosophy of science (e.g. on thought experiments and on mathematization) and in history of philosophy of science (e.g. on Duhem and on Couturat).