One of the most pleasing features of this collection is the rather striking, and often controversial, nature of the theses being defended. There is no doubt that the authors have detailed knowledge of Descartes' corpus and a deep understanding of the issues involved in their subjects. ... It is clear that the authors wanted to focus on those topics that most benefitted from Desmond Clarke's work, and this was done very well.

Marcy P. Lascano, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in particular on Desmond Clarke's important contributions to these aspects of Descartes's writings. Stephen Gaukroger and Catherine Wilson split the volume into four distinct parts; Cartesian Science, Mind and Perception, Actions and Passions, and Cartesian Woman. The contributors are internationally known and respected scholars of 17th century philosophy writing on a number of their favourite Cartesian topics.
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This collection of original essays deals with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in particular on Desmond Clarke's important contributions to these aspects of Descartes's writings.
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PART I. CARTESIAN SCIENCE; PART II. MIND AND PERCEPTION; PART III. ACTIONS AND PASSIONS; PART IV. CARTESIAN WOMAN
Presents Descartes as natural scientist and challenges conventional readings of Descartes Offers new approaches to the mind-body problem Focuses on emotions and virtue theory in Descartes, indicating new avenues for research Illustrious international line-up of contributors
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Stephen Gaukroger was educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. His publications include Explanatory Structures (1978), Cartesian Logic (1989), Descartes, An Intellectual Biography (1995), Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy (2001), Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (2002), The Emergence of a Scientific Culture (2006), The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility (2010), Objectivity (2012), Le Monde en images (2015), and The Natural and the Human (2016). Catherine Wilson is Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. She has written extensively on visual experience in scientific and aesthetic contexts and on Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. She is the author of The Invisible World: Philosophers and the Microscope 1650-1720, recently reprinted by Princeton University Press, Descartes' Meditations: A New Introduction (2003). and, most recently, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (2008). With Desmond Clarke, she edited the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (2011)
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Presents Descartes as natural scientist and challenges conventional readings of Descartes Offers new approaches to the mind-body problem Focuses on emotions and virtue theory in Descartes, indicating new avenues for research Illustrious international line-up of contributors
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Product details

ISBN
9780198779643
Published
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Weight
486 gr
Height
241 mm
Width
161 mm
Thickness
19 mm
Age
UP, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
234

Biographical note

Stephen Gaukroger was educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. His publications include Explanatory Structures (1978), Cartesian Logic (1989), Descartes, An Intellectual Biography (1995), Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy (2001), Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (2002), The Emergence of a Scientific Culture (2006), The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility (2010), Objectivity (2012), Le Monde en images (2015), and The Natural and the Human (2016). Catherine Wilson is Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. She has written extensively on visual experience in scientific and aesthetic contexts and on Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. She is the author of The Invisible World: Philosophers and the Microscope 1650-1720, recently reprinted by Princeton University Press, Descartes' Meditations: A New Introduction (2003). and, most recently, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (2008). With Desmond Clarke, she edited the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (2011)