Descartes' Natural Philosophy

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New York: Routledge (2000)
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The most comprehensive collection of essays on Descartes' scientific writings ever published, this volume offers a detailed reassessment of Descartes' scientific work and its bearing on his philosophy. The 35 essays, written by some of the world's leading scholars, cover topics as diverse as optics, cosmology and medicine, and will be of vital interest to all historians of philosophy or science.

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B1878.N3.D47 2000

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0415219930   9780415219938   0415510708   9780203463017   9780415510707

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Descartes' cardiology and its reception in English physiology.Peter Anstey
Descartes and Formal Signs.David Behan
Descartes' debt to Beeckman: Inspiration, cooperation, conflict.Klass van Berkel
Causal powers and occasionalism from Descartes to Malebranche.Desmond Clarke
A different Descartes: Descartes and the programme for a mathematical physics in his correspondence.Daniel Garber
The resources of a mechanist physiology and the problem of goal-directed processes.Stephen Gaukroger
Descartes' naturalism about the mental.Gary Hatfield
Descartes, experiments, and a first generation Cartesian: Jacques Rohault.Trevor McClaughlin
Force, determination and impact.Peter McLaughlin
Neo-Aristotle and method: Between Zabarella and Descartes.T. J. Reiss
Descartes 'Opticien': The construction of the law of refraction and the manufacture of its physical rationales, 1618–29. [REVIEW]John A. Schuster
Figuring things out: Figurate problem-solving in the early Descartes.Dennis L. Sepper
The texture of thought: Why Descartes'“Meditationes” is meditational, and why it matters.Dennis L. Sepper
Descartes' startling doctrine of the reverse-sign relation.Peter Slezak
Symposium: Descartes on perceptual cognition.John Sutton
The body and the brain.John Sutton
The invention of nature: Descartes and Regius.Theo Verbeek
Descartes and the Corporeal Mind: Some Implications of the Regius Affair.Catherine Wilson
Replies to my fellow symposiasts.J. W. Yolton

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Cartesian Functional Analysis.Deborah J. Brown - 2012 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90 (1):75 - 92.
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