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René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived from the 'cogito' principle first the existence of a material world. But Descartes did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, psychology, and optics. In this book Tom Sorrell shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his metaphysics to support his programme in the sciences. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780191606564 |
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| Publisher: | OUP Oxford |
| Publication date: | 10/12/2000 |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Sales rank: | 1,021,301 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
Tom Sorell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is the author of Hobbes (1986), Moral Theory and Capital Punishment (1987), Scientism (1991), and editor of The Rise of Modern Philosophy (1993) and The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (1995).
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | ix | |
| Series Preface | xi | |
| Introduction | xiii | |
| Part I | Method | |
| 1 | 'Mathematical Demonstration and Deduction in Descartes's Early Methodological and Scientific Writings', Journal of the History of Philosophy, 31, pp. 223-44. (1993) | 3 |
| 2 | 'Descartes: Methodological Ideal and Actual Procedure', Philosophia Naturalis, 21, pp. 577-89. (1984) | 25 |
| 3 | 'Descartes, the Aristotelians, and the Revolution that Did Not Happen in 1637', The Monist, 71, pp. 471-86. (1988) | 39 |
| Part II | Metaphysics and Cartesian Metaphysics | |
| 4 | 'On Descartes' Constitution of Metaphysics', Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, 11, pp. 21-33. (1986) | 57 |
| 5 | 'The Crisis of the Cogito', Synthese, 106, pp. 57-66. (1996) | 71 |
| Part III | Meditation and Doubt | |
| 6 | 'Descartes's Meditations as Cognitive Exercises', Philosophy and Literature, 19, pp. 41-58. (1985) | 83 |
| 7 | 'What is Cartesian Doubt?', American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 67, pp. 467-95. (1993) | 101 |
| 8 | 'Scientific and Practical Certainty in Descartes', American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 67, pp. 569-85. (1993) | 131 |
| Part IV | The Cogito | |
| 9 | 'Cogito Ergo Sum', Journal of Philosophy, 90, pp. 462-68. (1993) | 151 |
| 10 | 'Cogito, Ergo Quis Est?', Revue Internationale de Philosphie, 50, pp. 5-21. (1996) | 159 |
| Part V | Ideas, Truth, Judgement | |
| 11 | 'How Can What I Perceive Be True?', History of Philosophy Quarterly, 12, pp. 185-94. (1995) | 179 |
| 12 | 'Descartes on the Material Falsity of Ideas', Philosophical Review, 102, pp. 309-33. (1993) | 189 |
| 13 | 'Judgment and Understanding in Descartes's Philosophy', Southern Journal of Philosophy, 21, pp. 89-99. (1983) | 215 |
| 14 | 'Descartes's Theory of Judgment', Southern Journal of Philosophy, 21, pp. 101-10. (1983) | 227 |
| Part VI | God | |
| 15 | 'The Problem of the Third Meditation', American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 67, pp. 537-59. (1993) | 239 |
| 16 | 'Descartes on the Creation of the Eternal Truths', Philosophical Review, 93, pp. 569-97. (1984) | 263 |
| 17 | 'How God Causes Motion: Descartes, Divine Sustenance, and Occasionalism', Journal of Philosophy, 84, pp. 567-80. (1987) | 293 |
| Part VII | Mind and Body | |
| 18 | 'Descartes and the Action of Body on Mind', Studia Leibnitiana, 19, pp. 41-53. (1987) | 309 |
| 19 | 'Descartes on the Origin of Sensation', Philosophical Topics, 19, pp. 293-323. (1991) | 323 |
| 20 | 'Understanding Interaction: What Descartes Should Have Told Elisabeth', Southern Journal of Philosophy, 21, pp. 15-32. (1983) | 355 |
| 21 | 'Descartes on Mind-Body Interaction and the Conservation of Motion', Philosophical Review, 102, pp. 155-82. (1993) | 373 |
| Part VIII | Matter and Motion | |
| 22 | 'Perfect Solidity: Natural Laws and the Problem of Matter in Descartes' Universe', History of Philosophy Quarterly, 13, pp. 187-204. (1996) | 403 |
| 23 | 'Against Emptiness: Descartes's Physics and Metaphysics of Plenitude', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 25, pp. 81-96. (1994) | 421 |
| 24 | 'Descartes and the Nature of Body', British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2, pp. 19-33. (1994) | 437 |
| Part IX | Ethics and Anthropology | |
| 25 | 'The Insufficiency of Descartes' Provisional Morality', International Philosophical Quarterly, 31, pp. 275-93. (1991) | 455 |
| 26 | 'Cartesian Ethics: Reason and the Passions', Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 50, pp. 193-216. (1996) | 475 |
| 27 | 'Life, Science, and Wisdom According to Descartes', History of Philosophy Quarterly, 12, pp. 133-53. (1995) | 499 |
| Name Index | 521 |
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