Steven Nadler

The Good Cartesian

Louis de la Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical Paradigm

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Produktbeschreibung

Steven Nadler presents a biographical and philosophical study of Louis de La Forge (1632-1666), an important but underappreciated (and understudied) follower of René Descartes (1596-1650) who made a major contribution to making Cartesianism the dominant philosophical paradigm of the seventeenth century. La Forge was a devoted and faithful, but not uncritical, disciple who defended, updated, and even corrected Descartes' metaphysics, physics, and physiology, both to move Cartesian system to greater internal coherence and to make it more consistent with the latest scientific developments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780197671719
• ISBN-10: 0197671713
• Artikelnr.: 69728650

Autorenporträt

Steven Nadler is William F. Vilas Research Professor and the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities and affiliated with the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies. He has been editor of the Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie and of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and he is currently president of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Inc. He has served a term as president of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. In 2020, he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Introduction
1. Louis de La Forge
2. Cartesianism, 1650-1663
3. Illustrating the World
4. A Disciple's Commentary
5. The Cartesian Mind
6. The Union of Mind and Body
7. Occasionalisms
8. The World of Bodies
9. Mind and Motion
10. Ideas and Volitions
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index