Descartes : a very short introduction /
Rene Descartes (1596-1650) had a short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured. This book shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his metaphysics to...
| Основен автор: | Sorell, Tom. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Серия: |
Very short introductions ;
30. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=277621 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Descartes. |
Съдържание:
- Matter and Metaphysics
- The discovery of a vocation
- One science one method
- 'Absolutes', simple natures, and problems
- Roaming about in the world
- Paris
- The suppressed physics
- Three specimens of a method
- A new 'logic'
- The need for metaphysics
- The meditations
- Doubt without scepticism?
- The theologians and the God of physics
- Ideas
- The mind
- Body
- The physics made public
- The 'other science'
- Last days
- Descartes's ghost
- Further readings
- Index.