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Title The Cambridge companion to Descartes / edited by John Cottingham
Edition First edition
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992

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Description xii, 441 pages ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge companions in philosophy
Cambridge companions to philosophy.
Contents Descartes' life and the development of his philosophy / Geneviève Rodis-Lewis -- Descartes and scholasticism : the intellectual background to Descartes' thought / Roger Ariew -- The nature of abstract reasoning : philosophical aspects of Descartes' work in algebra / Stephen Gaukroger -- Cartesian metaphysics and the role of the simple natures / Jean-Luc Marion -- The Cogito and its importance / Peter Markie -- The idea of God and the proofs of his existence / Jean-Marie Beyssade -- The Cartesian circle / Louis E. Loeb -- Cartesian Dualism : theology, metaphysics, and science / John Cottingham -- Descartes' philosophy of science and the scientific revolution / Desmond Clarke -- Descartes' physics / Daniel Garber -- Descartes' physiology and its relation to his psychology / Gary Hatfield -- Descartes on thinking with the body / Amélie Oksenberg Rorty -- The reception of Descartes' philosophy / Nicholas Jolley
Summary Leading scholars present the full range of Descartes' philosophical achievement in the context of his life and the development of his thought
Analysis France
Philosophy
France
Philosophy
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-438) and index
Notes Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Philosophers.
Philosophy, French.
Author Cottingham, John, 1943-
Cambridge University Press.
LC no. 91040483
ISBN 0521366232
0521366968 (paperback)
9780521366236
9780521366960 (paperback)
OTHER TI Cambridge companions online