Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René DescartesStephen Voss A major contribution to Descartes studies, this book provides a panorama of cutting-edge scholarship ranging widely over Descartes's own primary concerns: metaphysics, physics, and its applications. It is at once a tool for scholars and--steering clear of technical Cartesian science--an accessible resource that will delight nonspecialists. The contributors include Edwin Curley, Willis Doney, Alan Gabbey, Daniel Garber, Marjorie Grene, Gary Hatfield, Marleen Rozemond, John Schuster, Dennis Sepper, Stephen Voss, Stephen Wagner, Margaret Welson, Jean Marie Beyssade, Michelle Beyssade, Michel Henry, Evert van Leeuwen, Jean-Luc Marion, Geneviève Rodis-Lewis, and Jean-Pierre Séris. Combining new textual sensitivity with attentiveness to history, they represent the best established scholars and most exciting new voices, including both English speaking and newly-translated writers. Part I examines the foundations of Descartes's philosophy: Cartesian certainty; the phenomenology of the cogito and its modulations in the passions; and the defensibility and comprehensibility of the Cartesian God. The second part examines Descartes's groundbreaking metaphysics: mind's distinctness from and interaction with body; imagination; perception; and language. Part III examines Cartesian science: the revolutionary rhetoric of the Rules and the Discourse; the metaphysical foundations of physics; the interplay of rationalism and empiricism; the mechanics and human biology that flow from Descartes's physics. |
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... : The Mind's Capacities and Relations to the Body 8. The Role of the Intellect in Descartes's Case for the Incorporeity of the Mind , 97 Marleen Rozemond 9. Mind - Body Interaction in Descartes , 115 Stephen Contents.
... : The Mind's Capacities and Relations to the Body 8. The Role of the Intellect in Descartes's Case for the Incorporeity of the Mind , 97 Marleen Rozemond 9. Mind - Body Interaction in Descartes , 115 Stephen Contents.
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Stephen Voss. 9. Mind - Body Interaction in Descartes , 115 Stephen I. Wagner 10. Simplicity and the Seat of the Soul , 128 Stephen Voss 11. Ingenium , Memory Art , and the Unity of Imaginative Knowing in the Early Descartes , 142 Dennis ...
Stephen Voss. 9. Mind - Body Interaction in Descartes , 115 Stephen I. Wagner 10. Simplicity and the Seat of the Soul , 128 Stephen Voss 11. Ingenium , Memory Art , and the Unity of Imaginative Knowing in the Early Descartes , 142 Dennis ...
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... interaction . Seris enters into dia- logue with those Anglo - Americans who imagine Descartes to anticipate theo- ries of the convergence of machine and language . Sepper incorporates conti- nental studies to shed light on the ...
... interaction . Seris enters into dia- logue with those Anglo - Americans who imagine Descartes to anticipate theo- ries of the convergence of machine and language . Sepper incorporates conti- nental studies to shed light on the ...
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... interaction has specific implications for physics as well . Daniel Garber investigates how Descartes can consistently make use of experi- ence in science and as a rationalist require certainty of scientific belief . Rodis- Lewis and ...
... interaction has specific implications for physics as well . Daniel Garber investigates how Descartes can consistently make use of experi- ence in science and as a rationalist require certainty of scientific belief . Rodis- Lewis and ...
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Contents
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Cartesian Metaphysics The Minds Capacities and Relations to the Body | 95 |
Cartesian Science Its Rhetoric Principles and Fruits | 193 |
Index | 337 |
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Page 289 - Method consists entirely in the order and disposition of the objects towards which our mental vision must be directed if we would find out any truth. We shall comply with it exactly if we reduce involved and obscure propositions...
Page 99 - ... our soul is of a nature entirely independent of the body, and 60 consequently that it is not bound to die with it. And since we cannot see any other causes which destroy the soul, we are naturally led to conclude that it is immortal.
Page 51 - Nature also teaches me, by these sensations of pain, hunger, thirst and so on, that I am not merely present in my body as a sailor is present in a ship, but that I am very closely joined and, as it were, intermingled with it, so that I and the body form a unit.
Page 122 - Now it is manifest by the natural light that there must be at least as much reality in the efficient and total cause as in the effect of that cause.
Page 76 - But if the mere fact that I can produce from my thought the idea of something entails that everything which I clearly and distinctly perceive to belong to that thing really does belong to it, is not this a possible basis for another argument to prove the existence of God?
Page 185 - For it is quite remarkable that there are no men so dullwitted or stupid — and this includes even madmen — that they are incapable of arranging various words together and forming an utterance from them in order to make their thoughts understood; whereas there is no other animal, however perfect and well-endowed it may be, that can do the like.
Page 78 - ... necessity on things, but, on the contrary, the necessity which lies in the thing itself, that is, the necessity of the existence of God, determines me to think in this way : for it is not in my power to conceive a God without existence, that is, a being supremely perfect, and yet devoid of an absolute perfection, as I am free to imagine a horse with or without wings.
Page 129 - ... tis only by our experience of their constant conjunction we can arrive at any knowledge of this relation. Now, as all objects which are not contrary are susceptible of a constant conjunction, and as no real objects are contrary, I have inferred from these principles (Part III.
Page 111 - I am, I exist - that is certain. But for how long? For as long as I am thinking. For it could be that were I totally to cease from thinking, I should totally cease to exist.