Descartes and the Possibility of Science
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801437755
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Western philosophy, c 1600 to c 1800; Mind & Body; Free Will & Determinism; Science/Mathematics; Philosophy; SCI034000; SCI; History & Surveys - Modern; Descartes, Renâe,; History; 1596-1650; Descartes, Rene,; Science
Description: "This new book describes the intellectual structure of modern science as a body of knowledge produced by the Cartesian method. For Descartes, science was possible only because of certain features of the very nature of human beings. Peter A. Schouls focuses on two largely neglected aspects of Descartes's position: the intellectual imagination and free will.

Joining these topics together within the context of Cartesian doctrine, Schouls opens up a substantially new reading of the Meditations and a more complete picture of Descartes as a scientist."--BOOK JACKET.