An illustrious team of scholars offer a rich survey of the thought of René Descartes; of the development of his ideas by those who followed in his footsteps; and of the reaction against Cartesianism. Epistemology, method, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, moral philosophy, political thought, medical thought, and aesthetics are all covered.
An illustrious team of scholars offer a rich survey of the thought of Ren escartes; of the development of his ideas by those who followed in his footsteps; and of the reaction against Cartesianism. Epistemology, method, metaphysics, physics, mathematics, moral philosophy, political thought, medical thought, and aesthetics are all covered.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Part I: Descartes
- 1: Han van Ruler: Philosopher Defying the Philosophers: Descartes's Life and Works
- 2: Roger Ariew: What Descartes Read: His Intellectual Background
- 3: Theo Verbeek and Erik-Jan Bos: Descartes's Correspondence and Correspondents"
- 4: Lex Newman: Descartes on the Method of Analysis
- 5: Lawrence Nolan: Descartes's Metaphysics
- 6: Gary Hatfield: Mind and Psychology in Descartes
- 7: Helen Hattab: Descartes's Mechanical But Not Mechanistic Physics
- 8: Sébastien Maronne: Descartes's Mathematics
- 9: Gideon Manning: Descartes and Medicine
- 10: C. P. Ragland: Descartes on Freedom
- 11: Denis Kambouchner: Descartes and the Passions
- 12: Igor Agostini: Descartes's Philosophical Theology
- 13: Laurence Renault: Descartes's Moral Philosophy
- 14: Delphine Antoine-Mahut: Descartes, Politics and 'True Human Beings
- 15: Frédéric de Buzon: The Compendium Musicae and Descartes's Aesthetics
- Part II: The Cartesians
- 16: Claudio Buccolini: Mersenne: Questioning Descartes
- 17: Lisa Shapiro: Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia as a Cartesian
- 18: Tad M. Schmaltz: Claude Clerselier and the Development of Cartesianism
- 19: Philippe Drieux: Louis La Forge on Mind, Causality and Union
- 20: Fred Ablondi: He has created a schism in philosophy': The Cartesianism of Géraud de Cordemoy
- 21: Denis Moreau: Antoine Arnauld: Cartesian Philosopher?
- 22: Jean-Christophe Bardout: The Ambiguities of Malebranche's Cartesianism
- 23: Antonella del Prete: The Prince of Cartesian Philosophers: Pierre-Sylvain Régis
- 24: Mihnea Dobre: Jacques Rohault and Cartesian Experimentalism
- 25: Tad M. Schmaltz: Robert Desgabets and the Supplement to Descartes's Philosophy
- 26: Wiep van Bunge: The Early Dutch Reception of Cartesianism
- 27: Tad M. Schmaltz: The Curious Case of Henricus Regius
- 28: Andrea Sangiacomo: Geulincx and the Quod Nescis Principle: A Conservative Revolution
- 29: Alice Ragni: Johannes Clauberg and the Search for the Initium Philosophiae: The Recovery of (Cartesian) Metaphysics
- 30: Mitia Rioux-Beaulne: What is Cartesianisma Fontenelle and the Subsequent Construction of Cartesian Philosophy?
- 31: Sarah Hutton: Cartesianism in Britain
- 32: Giulia Belgioioso: Italy Did Not Want to Be Cartesian': And For Good Reason
- 33: Dan Arbib: 33. "The Creation of Eternal Truths: Issues and Context"
- 34: Jean-Robert Armogathe: Cartesianism and Eucharistic Physics
- 35: Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin: Cartesianism and Feminism
- Part III: The Critics
- 36: Hélène Bouchilloux: Pascal and Port-Royal
- 37: Antonia Lolordo: Gassendi as Critic of Descartes
- 38: Douglas Jesseph: Optics, First Philosophy and Natural Philosophy in Hobbes and Descartes
- 39: Jasper Reid: Henry More, Supporter and Opponent of Cartesianism
- 40: Hadley Cooney: Margaret Cavendish vs. Descartes on Mechanism and Animal Souls
- 41: Steven Nadler: Spinoza, Descartes and the 'Stupid Cartesians'
- 42: Michael W. Hickson: Simon Foucher and Anti-Cartesian Skepticism
- 43: Philippe Hamou: Locke on Cartesian Bodies and Cartesian Souls
- 44: Christia Mercer: Anne Conway's Response to Cartesianism
- 45: Jean-Pascal Anfray: Leibniz and Descartes
- 46: Todd Ryan: A Cartésien Manqué: Pierre Bayle and Cartesianism
- 47: Sophie Roux: The Condemnations of Cartesian Natural Philosophy Under Louis XIV (1661-1691)
- 48: Thomas M. Lennon: Pierre-Daniel Huet, Skeptic Critic of Cartesianism and Defender of Religion
- 49: Justin Smith: Gabriel Daniel: Descartes Through the Mirror of Fiction
- 50: Andrew Janiak: Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and Newton
