This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on various concepts in Descartes’ philosophy, science, and mathematics, as well as biographical entries about the intellectual setting for Descartes’ philosophy and its reception, both with Cartesians and anti-Cartesians. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Descartes.
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on various concepts in Descartes’ philosophy, science, and mathematics, as well as biographical entries about the intellectual setting for Descartes’ philosophy and its reception, both with Cartesians and anti-Cartesians. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Descartes.
Roger Ariew is distinguished professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Descartes and the Last Scholastics, Descartes among the Scholastics, and Descartes and the First Cartesians; he is the editor or co-editor, of many volumes, including: with Marjorie Grene, of Descartes and His Contemporaries and, with Daniel Garber, of the 10-volume collection, Descartes in 17th-Century England. He is also the editor and translator of Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence, and Pascal, Pensées, of Leibniz: Philosophical Essays, with Daniel Garber, of Montaigne, Apology forRaymond Sebond, with Marjorie Grene, and of Background Source Materials: Descartes' Meditations, with John Cottingham and Tom Sorell. Ariew's research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Science Foundation, and the American Council for Learned Societies
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Editor's Foreword Jon Woronoff Preface Reader's Note Chronology Introduction THE DICTIONARY Bibliography About the Authors
