What is Cartesianism? : Fontenelle and the subsequent construction of Cartesian philosophy

In Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz & Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. pp. 481-495 (2019)
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In this paper, I show that if Fontenelle promotes Cartesianism, it is from a very specific point of view, which emphasizes the scientific revolution and its impact on other fields that it brought about and leaves completely behind its contribution to metaphysics.

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