Receptions of Descartes
Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe
Published on 12. October 2012
272 pages
978-1-134-34912-8 (ISBN)
Description
Receptions of Descartes is a collection of work by an international group of authors that focuses on the various ways in which Descartes was interpreted, defended and criticized in early modern Europe. The book is divided into five sections, the first four of which focus on Descartes' reception in specific French, Dutch, Italian and English contexts and the last of which concerns the reception of Descartes among female philosophers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,35 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-34912-8 (9781134349128)
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Person
Tad M.Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, USA.
Content
Part 1 The Initial Reception Among Women Philosophers; Chapter 1 Women Philosophers and the Early Reception of Descartes, Sarah Hutton; Part 2 The French Reception and French Cartesianism; Chapter 2 Desgabets's Indefectibility Thesis-a Step Too Far?, Patricia Easton; Chapter 3 A Reception Without Attachment, Jean-Christophe Bardout; Chapter 4 Huet on the Reality of Cartesian Doubt, Thomas M. Lennon; Chapter 5 French Cartesianism in Context, Tad M. Schmaltz; Part 3 Spinoza and the Dutch Reception; Chapter 6 Descartes's Soul, Spinoza's Mind, Steven Nadler; Chapter 7 Wittich's Critique of Spinoza, Theo Verbeek; Chapter 8 Burchard de Volder, Paul Lodge; Part 4 The Reception in Rome and Naples; Chapter 9 Cartesian Physics and the Eucharist in the Documents of the Holy Office and the Roman Index (1671-6), Jean-Robert Armogathe; Chapter 10 Images of Descartes in Italy, Giulia Belgioioso; Part 5 The Reception Across the Channel; Chapter 11 Mechanism, Skepticism, and Witchcraft, Douglas Jesseph; Chapter 12 Descartes Among the British, Margaret Atherton;
