Descartes in the Classroom

Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in the Early Modern Age
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52326-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 573 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1098 g

Reihe: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science

The volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes’s philosophy in the early modern age. Its twenty chapters explore the clash between Descartes’s “new” philosophy and the established pedagogical practices and institutional concerns, as well as the various strategies employed by Descartes’s supporters in order to communicate his ideas to their students. The volume considers a vast array of topics, sources, and institutions, across the borders of countries and confessions, both within and without the university setting (public conferences, private tutorials, distance learning by letter) and enables us thereby to reconsider from a fresh perspective the history of early modern philosophy and education.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cellamare, Davide

Mantovani, Mattia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

Davide Cellamare and Mattia Mantovani

1 Descartes and the Classroom

Theo Verbeek

2 The Philosophical Fulcrum of Seventeenth-Century Leiden: Pedagogical Innovation and Philosophical Novelty in Adriaan Heereboord

Howard Hotson

3 Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in Leiden: Adriaan Heereboord (1613–1661) and Johannes De Raey (1622–1702)

Antonella Del Prete

4 Reassessing Johannes De Raey’s Aristotelian-Cartesian Synthesis: The Copenhagen Manuscript Annotata in Principia philosophica (1658)

Domenico Collacciani

5 “Let Descartes Speak Dutch”: Spinoza’s Circle Teaching Cartesianism

Henri Krop

6 Patronage as a Means to End a University Controversy: The Conclusion of Two Cartesian Disputes at Frankfurt an der Oder (1656 and 1660)

Pietro Daniel Omodeo

7 Cartesian and Anti-Cartesian Disputations and Corollaries at Utrecht University, 1650–1670

Erik-Jan Bos

8 Between Descartes and Boyle: Burchard de Volder’s Experimental Lectures at Leiden, 1676–1678

Andrea Strazzoni

9 Medicine and the Mind in the Teaching of Theodoor Craanen (1633–1688)

Davide Cellamare

10 Cartesius Triumphatus: Gerard de Vries and Opposing Descartes at the University of Utrecht

Daniel Garber

11 Debating Cartesian Philosophy on Both Sides of the Channel: Johannes Schuler’s (1619–1674) Plea for libertas philosophandi

Igor Agostini

12 Descartes by Letter—Teaching Cartesianism in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Cambridge: Henry More, Thomas Clarke and Anne Conway

Sarah Hutton

13 Teaching Descartes’s Ethics in London and Cambridge

Roger Ariew

14 Teaching Magnetism in a Cartesian World, 1650–1700

Christoph Sander

15 The Anatomy of a Condemnation: Descartes’s Theory of Perception and the Louvain Affair, 1637–1671

Mattia Mantovani

16 Descartes’s Theory of Tides in the Louvain Classroom, 1670–1760

Carla Rita Palmerino

17 Traces of the Port-Royal Logic in the Louvain Logic Curricula

Steven Coesemans

18 Cartesianism and the Education of Women

Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin

19 Rohault’s Private Lessons on Cosmology

Mihnea Dobre

20 French Cartesianisms in the 1690s: The Textbooks of Regis and Pourchot

Tad M. Schmaltz

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Davide Cellamare, Ph.D. (2015), Radboud University Nijmegen, is FWO Senior-Postdoc at KU Leuven. He has published numerous articles on late medieval and early modern psychology (with a special focus on the institutional and confessional contexts), as well as on Cartesianism.

Mattia Mantovani, Ph.D. (2018), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is FWO Junior-Postdoc at KU Leuven. He has published numerous articles on medieval and early modern epistemology and perception theory – with a special focus on Descartes – and on the role of diagrams in science.