A Companion to Descartes

Herausgegeben von Broughton, Janet; Carriero, John

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of more than 30 specially commissioned essays, this volume surveys the work of the 17th-century philosopher-scientist commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, while integrating unique essays detailing the context and impact of his work.

Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on the work of Descartes
Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of skepticism, mind-body dualism, self-knowledge, innate ideas, substance, causality, God, and the nature of animals
Explores the philosophical significance of his contributions to mathematics and science
Concludes with a section on the impact of Descartes s work on subsequent philosophers

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 965g
• ISBN-13: 9781444337846
• ISBN-10: 144433784X
• Artikelnr.: 31187462

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributor. List of Abbreviations. Introduction. PART I. THE
INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT. 1. Life and Works (Stephen Gaukroger). 2.
Aristotelian Natural Philosophy: Body, Cause, Nature (Dennis Des Chene). 3.
Descartes and Augustine (Catherine Wilson). 4. Descartes and the Legacy of
Ancient Skepticism (Casey Perin). PART II. MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL
PHILOSOPHY. 5. Descartes and Galileo: Copernicanism and the Metaphysical
Foundations of Physics (Michael Friedman). 6. Explanation as Confirmation
in Descartes's Natural Philosophy (Ernan McMullin). 7. Descartes and
Mathematics (Paolo Mancosu). 8. Descartes's Optics: Light, the Eye, and
Visual Perception (Margaret J. Osler). PART III. EPISTEMOLOGY AND
METAPHYSICS. 9. Descartes's Method (Murray Miles). 10. Descartes's Use of
Doubt (David Owens). 11. Self-Knowledge (Janet Broughton). 12. Descartes on
True and False Ideas (Deborah J. Brown). 13. Clear and Distinct Perception
(Sarah Patterson). 14. Causation Without Intelligibility and Causation
Without God in Descartes (Michael Della Rocca). 15. Descartes on Substance
(Vere Chappell). 16. Descartes and the Metaphysics of Extension (C.G.
Normore). 17. The Role of God in Descartes's Philosophy (John Cottingham).
18. The Cartesian Circle and the Foundations of Knowledge (John Carriero).
19. Cartesian Innateness (Alan Nelson). 20. Descartes on the Will in
Judgment (Lex Newman). 21. Omnipotence, Modality, and Conceivability (Lilli
Alanen). 22. Descartes's Dualism (Marleen Rozemond). 23. The Union and
Interaction of Mind and Body (Paul Hoffman). 24. Animals (Gary Hatfield).
25. How to Engineer a Human Being: Passions and Functional Explanation in
Descartes (Amy M. Schmitter). 26. Descartes's Ethics (Lisa Shapiro). PART
IV. DESCARTES'S LEGACY. 27. Descartes's Legacy in the Seventeenth Century:
Problems and Polemic (Thomas M. Lennon). 28. Contemporary Reactions to
Descartes's Philosophy of Mind (Quassim Cassam). 29. Descartes and the
Phenomenological Tradition (Wayne M. Martin). 30. Our Debt to Descartes
(Barry Stroud). Index.

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)