Gaukroger / Schuster / Sutton Descartes' Natural Philosophy

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-1-134-60091-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 784 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy

The most comprehensive collection of essays on Descartes' scientific writings ever published, this volume offers a detailed reassessment of Descartes' scientific work and its bearing on his philosophy. The 35 essays, written by some of the world's leading scholars, cover topics as diverse as optics, cosmology and medicine, and will be of vital interest to all historians of philosophy or science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gaukroger, Stephen

Schuster, John

Sutton, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Mechanics and Cosmology

1. Descartes and the natural philosophy of the Coimbra commentaries Dennis Des Chene

2. Descartes' debt to Beeckman: inspiration, cooperation, conflict Klaas Van Berkel

3. The foundational role of hydrostatics and statics in Descartes' natural philosophy Stephen Gaukroger

4. Force, determination and impact Peter MaLaughlin

5. A different Descartes: Descartes' programme for a mathematical physics in his correspondence Daniel Garber

6. Casual powers and occasionalism from Descartes to Malebranche Desmond Clarje

7. Modelling nature: Descartes versus Reigus Theo Verbeek

8. The influence of Cartesian cosmology in England Peter Harrison

Method, Optics, and the Role of Experiment

9. NeoAristotle and method: between Zabarella and Descartes Timothy Reiss

10. Figuring things out: figurate problem-solving in the early Descartes Dennis Sepper

11. The theory of the rainbow Jean-Robert Armogathe

12. Descartes' opticien: the construction of the law of refraction and the manufacture of its physical rationales, 1618-1629 John A. Schuster

13. A 'science for honnêteshommes': La Recherche de la Vérité and the deconstruction of experimental knowledge Alberto Guillermo Ranea

14. Descartes, experiments, and a first generation Cartesian, Jacques Rohault Trevor McLaughlin

15. Cartesian physiology Annie Bitbol-Hesperies

16. The resources of a mechanist physiology and the problem of goal-directed processes Stephen Gaukroger

17. Bêtes machines Katherine Morris

18. Descartes' cardiology and its reception in English physiology Peter Anstey

Imagination and Representation

19. Descartes' theory of imagination and perspectival art Betsy Newell Decyk

20. From sparks of truth to the glow of possibility Peter Schouls

21. Descartes' theory of visual spatial perception Celia Wolf-Devine

22. Symposium on Descartes on perceptual cognition. Introduction John Sutton

Descartes and Formal Signs David Behan

Descartes' startling doctrine of the reverse sign relation Peter Slezak

Bibliography