Descartes on forms and mechanisms
By: Helen Hattab.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780521518925
Subjects: Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650; Mechanism (Philosophy); Form (Philosophy); Scholasticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Descartes' arguments against the substantial form; title: Aquinas' introduction of the substantial form; title: Suarez's defense of the substantial form; title: Sanchez's skeptical humanist attack; title: The mechanical alternative to substantial forms; title: Cartesian science and the principles of Aristotelian mechanics; title: Atoms, modes, and other heresies; title: Descartes' metaphysical alternative to substantial forms.