A Companion to Descartes
by Editor: Janet Broughton (University of California, Berkeley, USA ); Editor: John Carriero (University of California, Los Angeles, USA )Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
A collection of more than 30 specially commissioned essays, this volume surveys the work of the 17th-century philosopher-scientist commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, while integrating unique essays detailing the context and impact of his work. Covers the full range of historical and philosophical perspectives on the work of Descartes Discusses his seminal contributions to our understanding of skepticism, mind-body dualism, self-knowledge, innate ideas, substance, causality, God, and the nature of animals Explores the philosophical significance of his contributions to mathematics and science Concludes with a section on the impact of Descartes's work on subsequent philosophers
Table of Contents
| Notes on Contributor | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Introduction | |
| The Intellectual Context. | |
| Life and Works | |
| Aristotelian Natural Philosophy: Body, Cause, Nature | |
| Descartes and Augustine | |
| Descartes and the Legacy of Ancient Skepticism | |
| Mathematics And Natural Philosophy. | |
| Descartes and Galileo: Copernicanism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Physics | |
| Explanation as Confirmation in DescartesÆs Natural Philosophy | |
| Descartes and Mathematics | |
| DescartesÆs Optics: Light, the Eye, and Visual Perception | |
| Epistemology And Metaphysics. | |
| DescartesÆs Method | |
| DescartesÆs Use of Doubt | |
| Self-Knowledge | |
| Descartes on True and False Ideas | |
| Clear and Distinct Perception | |
| Causation Without Intelligibility and Causation Without God in Descartes | |
| Descartes on Substance | |
| Descartes and the Metaphysics of Extension (C.G. Normore) | |
| The Role of God in DescartesÆs Philosophy | |
| The Cartesian Circle and the Foundations of Knowledge | |
| Cartesian Innateness | |
| Descartes on the Will in Judgment | |
| Omnipotence, Modality, and Conceivability | |
| DescartesÆs Dualism | |
| The Union and Interaction of Mind and Body | |
| Animals | |
| How to Engineer a Human Being: Passions and Functional Explanation in Descartes | |
| DescartesÆs Ethics | |
| DESCARTESÆS LEGACY. | |
| DescartesÆs Legacy in the Seventeenth Century: Problems and Polemic | |
| Contemporary Reactions to DescartesÆs Philosophy of Mind | |
| Descartes and the Phenomenological Tradition | |
| Our Debt to Descartes | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
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