A companion to Descartes
By: edited by Janet Broughton and John Carriero
Contributors: Broughton, Janet, 1948-; Carriero, John Peter
Series: Blackwell companions to philosophy -- 38
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Interscience; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9781405121545
Subjects: Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Life and works / Stephen Gaukroger; title: Aristotelian natural philosophy : body, cause, nature / Dennis Des Chenes; title: Descartes and Augustine / Catherine Wilson; title: Descartes and the legacy of ancient skepticism / Casey Perin; title: Descartes and Galileo : Copernicanism and the metaphysical foundations of physics / Michael Friedman; title: Explanation as confirmation in Descartes's natural philosophy / Ernan McMullin; title: Descartes and mathematics / Paolo Mancosu; title: Descartes's optics : light, the eye, and visual perception / Margaret J. Osler; title: Descartes's method / Murray Miles; title: Descartes's use of doubt / David Owens; title: Self-knowledge / Janet Broughton; title: Descartes on true and false ideas / Deborah J. Brown; title: Clear and distinct perception / Sarah Patterson; title: Causation without intelligibility and causation without God in Descartes / Michael Della Rocca; title: Descartes on substance / Vere Chappell; title: Descartes and the metaphysics of extension / C.G. Normore; title: The role of God in Descartes's philosophy / John Cottingham; title: The cartesian circle and the foundations of knowledge / John Carriero; title: Cartesian innateness / Alan Nelson; title: Descartes on the will and judgment / Lex Newman; title: Omnipotence, modality, and conceivability / Lilli Alanen; title: Descartes's dualism / Marleen Rozemond; title: The union and interaction of mind and body / Paul Hoffman; title: Animals / Gary Hatfield; title: How to engineer a human being : passions and functional explanation in Descartes / Amy M. Schmitter; title: Descartes's ethics / Lisa Shapiro; title: Descartes's legacy in the seventeenth century : problems and polemic / Thomas M. Lennon; title: Contemporary reactions to Descartes's philosophy of mind / Quassim Cassam; title: Descartes and the phenomenological tradition / Wayne M. Martin; title: Our debt to Descartes / Barry Stroud