The Cartesian Mind

Herausgeber: Wee, Cecilia; Tanner, Travis; Secada, Jorge

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Produktbeschreibung

Descartes' work is central to all areas of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and ethics. As such The Cartesian Mind is essential reading and an indispensable tool for all students and researchers in the discipline.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781138847422
• ISBN-10: 1138847429
• Artikelnr.: 60014079

Autorenporträt

Jorge Secada is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Virginia, USA and is the author of Cartesian Metaphysics; Meditaciones sobre el Perú; and a number of articles on early modern philosophy and other subjects. Travis Tanner is Instructor of Philosophy and Religion at Austin Peay State University, USA. He is the author of several papers on the history of early modern philosophy and his current research concerns the intersection of science, religion, and metaphysics during the Scientific Revolution. Cecilia Wee was Associate Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore and is the author of Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations and a number of papers on early modern philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Abbreviations and Conventions Acknowledgements
Introduction: Cartesian Studies and the Janus-faced Philosopher Jorge
Secada and Travis Tanner Part 1: Historical Context 1. Descartes's Life and
Works Desmond Clarke 2. The Platonic Tradition Jonathan Hill 3. The
Scholastic and Meditational Traditions Jorge Secada 4. The Skeptical
Tradition Henrik Lagerlund 5. Descartes and the Atomists Andrew Pyle 6.
Descartes and the Stoics John Marshall Part 2: Philosophical Themes 7.
Descartes' Method Tarek Dika and Denis Kambouchner 8. Descartes' Cogito
Stephen I. Wagner 9. The Nature of the Self Lilli Alanen 10. How Well do
Cartesian Minds Know Themselves? Lex Newman 11. Descartes on Ideas Kurt
Smith 12. Sensibility and Intellect in Descartes Tom Vinci 13. Material
Falsity Cecilia Wee 14. Descartes's Concept of God Catherine Wilson 15.
Descartes on Will and Judgment Noa Naaman-Zauderer 16. Descartes'
Distinctive Conception of Freedom Andrea Christofidou 17. Simple Natures
and Eternal Truths David Cunning 18. Substance in Descartes Justin Skirry
19. Body Edward Slowik 20. Descartes on the real distinction between mind
and body Katherine J. Morris 21. Causation Walter Ott 22. Descartes on
Formal Causation Travis Tanner 23. Mathematics and Geometry Judith V.
Grabiner 24. The Nature and Method of Physics and Natural Sciences Helen
Hattab 25. Descartes, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science Celia
Wolf-Devine 26. The Meaning of 'Life' in Descartes' Natural Philosophy
Deborah Brown 27. Cartesian Biology and Medicine Gideon Manning 28.
Spontaneous Volition and Passionate Reasons Amy Schmitter 29. Descartes's
Ethics Patrick Frierson Part 3: Reception and Influence 30. Cartesians and
Anti-Cartesians in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Tad Schmaltz
31. Descartes and the Newtonians Sarah Hutton 32. The Rationalist Reception
of Descartes Alan Nelson and Noa Shein 33. Descartes and Berkeley or the
Cartesian Origins of Idealism Jorge Secada 34. Into and out of Cartesianism
within German Idealism Terry Pinkard 35. Figures of Descartes in
Nineteenth-Century France Delphine Antoine-Mahut 36. Husserl revisiting
Descartes Rosemary Rizo de Lerner 37. Anscombe's Intention James Doyle 38.
Cartesian Legacies in Contemporary Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind
Harold Langsam 39. Descartes and the Philosophy of Mind Lawrence Nolan 40.
Cartesian Certainty, Realism and Scientific Inference Manuel Barrantes 41.
Descartes and Modern and Contemporary Theology Aza Goudriaan 42. Descartes
in Contemporary Culture Diana Cortez (with Jorge Secada). Index