Tad M. Schmaltz

Radical Cartesianism

The French Reception of Descartes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of two of Descartes's successors and of their original contributions to Cartesianism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780521811347
• ISBN-10: 0521811341
• Artikelnr.: 29021300

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
A note on citation and translation
List of abbreviations
Introduction: radical Cartesianism in context
Part I. Robert Desgabets: 1. Desgabets's Considérations, Arnauld and Cartesianism
Part II. Three Radical Doctrines: 2. The creation doctrine: indefectible material substance and God
3. The intentionality doctrine: ideas and extra-mental objects
4. The union doctrine: temporal human thought and motion
Part III. Pierre-Sylvain Regis: 5. Huet's Censura, Malebranche and Platonism
Conclusion: 'a forgotten branch of Cartesianism'
Works cited
Index.