Record details

• ISBN: 0195075501 (hard)
• ISBN: 9780195075502 (hard)
• ISBN: 019507551X (pbk.)
• ISBN: 9780195075519 (pbk.)
• Physical Description: xvii, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Content descriptions

General Note:

In English, with some essays translated from French.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Certainty : psychological, moral, and metaphysical / Edwin Curley -- The cogito : privileged truth or exemplary truth? / Michelle Beyssade -- The soul according to Descartes / Michel Henry -- Generosity and phenomenology : remarks on Michel Henry's interpretation of the Cartesian cogito / Jean-Luc Marion -- Did Caterus misunderstand Descartes's ontological proof? / Willis Doney -- On the idea of God : incomprehensibility or incompatibilities? / Jean-Marie Beyssade -- The role of the intellect in Descartes's case for the incorporeity of the mind / Marleen Rozemond -- Mind-body interaction in Descartes / Stephen I. Wagner -- Simplicity and the seat of the soul / Stephen Voss -- Ingenium, memory art, and the unity of imaginative knowing in the early Descartes / Dennis L. Sepper -- Descartes on the perception of primary qualities / Margaret D. Wilson.

Language and machine in the philosophy of Descartes / Jean-Pierre Séris -- Whatever should we do with the Cartesian method? : reclaiming Descartes for the history of science / John A. Schuster -- Method, discourse, and the act of knowing / Evert van Leeuwen -- From metaphysics to physics / Geneviève Rodis-Lewis -- Reason, nature, and God in Descartes / Gary Hatfield -- Descartes and experiment in the Discourse and Essays / Daniel Garber -- Descartes's physics and Descartes's mechanics : chicken and egg? / Alan Gabbey -- The heart and blood : Descartes, Plemp and Harvey / Marjorie Grene.

Language Note:

English, with some essays translated from French.

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Subject:

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.