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Title Physics and metaphysics in Descartes and in his reception / edited by Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Sophie Roux
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Published London : Routledge, 2018

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Series Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 17
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Historiography; 1 First Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Physics: The Implications of Order in Cartesian Philosophy and in the Philosophy of Enlightenment; 2 To Replant and Uproot. Typology of the Cartesian Tree of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Philosophy; 3 Between Fake, Unfortunate, and Actual Dependence: The Tumultuous Relationships of Descartes' Physics and Metaphysics in the First Half of Twentieth-Century History and Philosophy of Science; Part II Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes' Time
4 The Metaphysical Roots of Physics, and the Alleged Link Between Taurellus, Gorlaeus, Regius, and Descartes5 Strange Bedfellows: Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes; 6 Descartes, A Priori Knowledge, and Metaphysics; 7 A Deflationist Solution to the Problem of Force in Descartes; Part III European Receptions; 8 Duplex Intellectus Et Sermo Duplex: Method and the Separation of Disciplines in Johannes De Raey; 9 The Materialist Reception of the Cartesian Physics in Naples; 10 Physics in the Broad Sense: Boyle, Newton, and the Baconian Metaphysical Physics
11 Continuous Creation, Occasionalism, and Persistence: Leibniz on Bayle12 Sticking to the Middle Course: Intellectual Ethics and Scientific Practice in Leibniz's Metaphysical Physics; Bibliography; Contributors; Index Rerum and Nominum
Summary This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes' philosophy. According to the standard account, Descartes modified the objects of metaphysics and physics and inverted the order in which these two disciplines were traditionally studied. This book challenges the standard account in which Descartes prioritizes metaphysics over physics. It does so by taking into consideration the historical reception of Descartes and the ways in which Descartes himself reacted to these receptions in his own lifetime. The book stresses the diversity of these receptions by taking into account not only Cartesianisms but also anti-Cartesianisms, and by showing how they retroactively highlighted different aspects of Descartes' works and theoretical choices. The historical aspect of the volume is unique in that it not only analyzes different constructions of Descartes that emerged in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, but also reflects on how his work was first read by philosophers across Europe. Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a fresh and up-to-date contribution to this important debate in early modern philosophy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes <P>Introduction</P><I><P>Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Sophie Roux</P><P></P></I><B><P>Part I. Historiography</P></B><P>1.<B> </B>First Philosophy, Metaphysics and Physics: The Implications of Order in Cartesian and in the Enlightenment Philosophy</P><I><P>Mariafranca Spallanzani</P></I><P>2. To Replant and Unroot: Typology of the Cartesian Tree of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Philosophy</P><I><P>Delphine Antoine-Mahut</P></I><P>3. Between Fake, Unfortunate, and Actual Dependence: The Tumultuous Relationships of Descartes' Physics and Metaphysics </P><I><P>Delphine Bellis</P></I><P></P><B><P>Part II. Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes' Time</P></B><P>4. Ontology and the Place of Metaphysics: Taurellus, Gorlaeus, Regius and Descartes</P><I><P>Christoph Lüthy</P></I><P>5. Strange Bedfellows: Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes</P><I><P>Emanuela Scribano</P></I><P>6. Descartes, A Priori Knowledge, and Metaphysics</P><I><P>Desmond M. Clarke</P></I><P>7. A Deflationist Solution to the Problem of Force in Descartes</P><I><P>Sophie Roux</P></I><P></P><B><P>Part III. European Recceptions</P></B><P>8. Duplex intellectus et sermo duplex: Method and the separation of disciplines in Johannes De Raey</P><I><P>Antonella Del Prete</P></I><P>9. The Materialist Reception of the Cartesian Physics in Naples</P><I><P>Pierre Girard</P></I><P>10. Physics in the broad senseBoyle, Newton and the Baconian metaphysical physics</P><I><P>Philippe Hamou</P></I><P>11. Continuous Creation, Occasionalism and Persistence: Leibniz on Bayle</P><I><P>Jean-Pascal Anfray</P></I><P>12. Sticking to the Middle Course. Intellectual ethics and scientific practice in Leibniz's metaphysical physics</P><I><P>Mogens Lærke</P></I>
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Subject Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Descartes, René, 1596-1650
Physics -- Philosophy.
Metaphysics.
metaphysics.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
SCIENCE -- History.
Antonella Del Prete.
anti-Cartesianism.
Cartesianism.
Cartesian metaphysics.
Christoph Lüthy.
David Gorlaeus.
Delphine Antoine-Mahut.
Delphine Bellis.
Desmond M. Clarke.
Dutch Cartesianism.
Emanuela Scribano.
Ernst Cassirer.
early modern philosophy.
Gaston Milhaud.
Gisbertus Voetius.
Henricus Regius.
history and philosophy of science.
Isaac Newton.
Jean-Pascal Anfray.
Johannes De Raey.
Leibniz.
Louis Liard.
Mariafranca Spallanzani.
Meditations.
Metaphysics.
Mogens Lærke.
Nicolaus Taurellus.
naturalized epistemology.
natural philosophy.
Philippe Hamou.
Physics.
Pierre Duhem.
Pierre Girard.
Rene Descartes.
Robert Boyle.
Sophie Roux.
Traité de l'Homme.
Victor Cousin.
Metaphysics
Physics -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Kolesnik-Antoine, Delphine, editor
Roux, Sophie, editor
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