Janet Broughton

Gebundenes Buch

A Companion to Descartes

Beschreibung

Blackwell Companions to Philosophy This outstanding student reference series offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of philosophy as a whole. Written by today's leading philosophers, each volume provides lucid and engaging coverage of the key figures, terms, topics, and problems of the field. Taken together, the volumes provide the ideal basis for course use, representing an unparalleled work of reference for students and specialists alike. Recent titles published in the series: A Companion to Heidegger Edited by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Mark A. Wrathall A Companion to Nietzsche Edited by Keith Ansell Pearson A Companion to Socrates Edited by Sara Ahbel-Rappe and Rachana Kamtekar A Companion to Kant Edited by Graham Bird A Companion to Plato Edited by Hugh H. Benson With 30 newly commissioned essays, A Companion to Descartes details in unparalleled depth the work of the seventeenth-century philosopher-scientist commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy. Alongside discussion of his seminal contributions to our understanding of skepticism, mind-body dualism, self-knowledge, innate ideas, substance, causality, God, and the nature of animals, the volume provides in several essays a valuable orientation to the intellectual, religious, and scientific contexts that were important to Descartes's work. Concluding with discussions of the impact of Descartes's work on subsequent generations of philosophers, this volume offers fresh and distinctive scholarly perspectives on this giant of the history of modern thought.

Autor

The Editors Janet Broughton is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Descartes's Method of Doubt (2002). John Carriero is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published widely in early modern philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 252mm x 181mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1134g
• ISBN-13: 9781405121545
• ISBN-10: 1405121548
• Artikelnr.: 21749902

Rezensionen

"Good companions fulfil two more duties - they provide better ways of understanding the familiar and they also defamiliarise it by encouraging new slants and alerting us to relatively ignored issues: this companion does both.... A most attractive and wide-ranging addition to its field." (Reference Reviews, Issue 6 2008)