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Title

Descartes' natural philosophy / edited by Stephen Gaukroger, John Schuster, and John Sutton.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Gaukroger, Stephen
• Schuster, John Andrew, 1947-
• Sutton, John, 1965-

Description

x, 767 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 3

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 3.

Subject

• Descartes, René, 1596-1650
• Descartes, René, 1596-1650 > Et la philosophie de la nature
• Imagination
• Natuurfilosofie
• Perception
• Philosophie de la nature
• Philosophy > history
• Philosophy of nature
• Physiology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [751]-757) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.
• 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.
• 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.

ISBN

• 0415219930 (alk. paper)
• 9780415219938 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99059525^

OCLC

42980159

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library