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Author Alexandrescu, Vlad

Title Branching off : the early moderns in quest for the unity of knowledge / Vlad Alexandrescu
Published Bucharest [Romania] : Zeta Books, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (409 pages)
Series Foundations of modern thought ; v. 1
Foundations of modern thought ; v. 1.
Contents "Toute hyperbole tend à nous amener à la vérité par l'excès de la vérité, c'est-à-dire parle mensonge " : les parcours hyperboliques qui amènent à la vérité de Balzac à Descartes -- Giulia BelgioiosoCaterus on God as ens a se -- Igor Agostini; Descartes and Henry Moreon Living Bodies- Justin E.H. Smith; The Scientific Journals of the Seventeenth Century: Cartesianism in the Journal des Sçavans and the Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1670 -- Mihnea Dobre; Kenelm Digby and the Weapon Salve in Seventeenth Century England- Eric Lewis; Leibniz and Locke on Natural Kinds- Brandon C. Look
Foreword -- Vlad Alexandrescu; Mathesis, Mathematics and Method in Descartes's Regulae: A Reprise -- Nathan D. Smith; Science du monde et théorie de la science dans les Principia Philosophiae de Descartes -- Elodie Cassan; The Double Question of the Individuation of Physical Bodies in Descartes -- Vlad Alexandrescu; Descartes, Leibniz, and Some Scholastics on The Principle of Individuation -- Roger Ariew; Descartes and the internal senses: on memory and remembrance -- Lucian Petrescu
The unity of knowledge: natural-philosophical foundations of Spinoza's politico-theology -- Stephen GaukrogerLeibniz, Theology and the Mechanical Philosophy -- Daniel Garber; John Lockeon the Study of Nature -- Sorana Corneanu; La Panacea Philosophica de Johann Heinrich Alsted: un projet architectonique d'accès au savoir -- Massimiliano Savini; The Fascination of Solomon's House in Seventeenth Century England: Baconianism Revisited -- Dana Jalobeanu
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English with 2 contributions in French
Subject Descartes, René, 1596-1650 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Descartes, René, 1596-1650 fast
Subject Knowledge, Theory of -- History -- 17th century
Science -- Philosophy.
Knowledge, Theory of
Science -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9731997431
9789731997438