Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin-Madison )

Gebundenes Buch

Geraud de Cordemoy

Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Body and the Soul

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

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