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Descartes and the possibility of science

Title: Descartes and the possibility of science / Peter A. Schouls.
Author: Schouls, Peter A.
Publication: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2000.

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Description

x, 171 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This new book describes the intellectual structure of modern science as a body of knowledge produced by the Cartesian method. For Descartes, science was possible only because of certain features of the very nature of human beings. Peter A. Schouls focuses on two largely neglected aspects of Descartes's position: the intellectual imagination and free will. Joining these topics together within the context of Cartesian doctrine, Schouls opens up a substantially new reading of the Meditations and a more complete picture of Descartes as a scientist."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-168) and index.

Contents

Setting the context: Descartes's methodology and metaphysics -- Mind out of nature -- A "logic of discovery" -- Practice in metaphysics -- Practice in geometry or pure physics -- Human nature and the possibility of science.

ISBN

080143775X
9780801437755

LCCN

00024021
9780801437755

OCLC

ocm43706993
43706993
SCSB-1140094

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Princeton University Library