Radical Cartesianism
Subtitle: the French reception of Descartes
By: Tad M. Schmaltz
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: French Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-279) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: radical Cartesianism in context; title: Robert Desgabets. Desgabets's Considérations, Arnauld, and Cartesianism; title: Three radical doctrines. The creation doctrine: indefectible material substance and God ; The intentionality doctrine: ideas and extra-mental objects ; The union doctrine: temporal human thought and motion; title: Pierre-Sylvain Regis. Huet's Censura, Malebranche, and platonism; title: Conclusion: 'a forgotten branch of Cartesianism'.