Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin-Madison )

Geraud de Cordemoy: Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Body and the Soul

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Produktbeschreibung

Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal early modern text, accompanied by a full introduction. GÃ raud de Cordemoy's Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Soul and the Body (1666) offers a groundbreaking account of the mind and body, and one of the earliest arguments for an occasionalist account of causation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780198713319
• ISBN-10: 0198713312
• Artikelnr.: 47869251

Autorenporträt

Steven Nadler has been teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1988. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris), the University of Amsterdam, and Ecole normale supérieure (Paris). Nadler is a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy (especially seventeenth century) and medieval Jewish philosophy, and the author of Occasionalism (OUP, 2010) and Spinoza's Heresy (OUP, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Six Discourses on the Distinction between the Body and the Soul
Preface
First Discourse: On Bodies and Matter
Second Discourse: On the Motion and Rest of Bodies
Third Discourse: On Natural and Artificial Machines
Fourth Discourse: On the first Cause of Motion
Fifth Discourse: On the Union of Mind and Body
Sixth Discourse: On the Distinction between Body and Soul
Treatises on Metaphysics
I. What constitutes the happiness or misery of minds
II. That God does everything that is real in our actions, without depriving us of freedom
Index