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Descartes

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This is a guide to the full range of Descartes’s major works and ideas, including his hugely important Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy.

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This is a guide to the full range of Descartes’s major works and ideas, including his hugely important Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy.

Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy

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Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy

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In this new introduction to the life, thought and works of one of the greatest seventeenth-century philosophers, John Cottingham aims to place Descartes” ideas in their historical context while at the same time showing how they relate to a network of philosophical problems that are still vigorously debated today. Separate chapters are devoted to Descartes” life and the intellectual climate of his times; the Cartesian method; the reconstruction of knowledge from self to God and to the external world; Descartes” theory of the material universe; his account of mind and body; and his psychology and theory of the will and passions. While doing justice to the complexities of Descartes” thought, the book presupposes no philosophical training, and all technical philosophical notions are explained in such a way as to be intelligible to the first-year student or general reader.

Descartes

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Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is the father of modern philosophy, and one of the greatest of all thinkers. This is the first intellectual biography of Descartes in English; it offers a fundamental reassessment of all aspects of his life and work. Stephen Gaukroger, a leading authority on Descartes, traces his intellectual development from childhood, showing the connections between his intellectual and personal life and placing these in the cultural context of seventeenth-century Europe. Descartes’ early work in mathematics and science produced ground-breaking theories, methods, and tools still in use today. This book gives the first full account of how this work informed and influenced the later philosophical studies for which, above all, Descartes is renowned. Not only were philosophy and science intertwined in Descartes’ life; so were philosophy and religion. The Church of Rome found Galileo guilty of heresy in 1633; two decades earlier, Copernicus’ theories about the universe had been denounced as blasphemous. To avoid such accusations, Descartes clothed his views about the relation between God and humanity, and about the nature of the universe, in a philosophical garb acceptable to the Church. His most famous project was the exploration of the foundations of human knowledge, starting from the proof of one’s own existence offered in the formula Cogito ergo sum, ‘I am thinking therefore I exist’. Stephen Gaukroger argues that this was not intended as an exercise in philosophical scepticism, but rather to provide Descartes’ scientific theories, influenced as they were by Copernicus and Galileo, with metaphysical legitimation. This book offers for the first time a full understanding of howDescartes developed his revolutionary ideas. It will be a landmark publication, welcomed by all readers interested in the origins of modern thought.

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Scientist, mathematician, traveler, soldier–and spy–Rene Descartes was one of the founders of the modern world. His life coincided with an extraordinary time in history: the first half of the miraculous seventeenth century, replete with genius in the arts and sciences, and wracked by civil and international conflicts across Europe. But at his birth in 1596 the world was still dominated by medieval beliefs in phenomena such as miracles and spontaneous generation. It was Descartes who identified the intellectual tools his peers needed to free themselves from the grip of religious authority and in doing so he founded modern philosophy.In this new biography, A. C. Grayling tells the story of Descartes’ life, and places it in his tumultuous times–with the unexpected result that an entirely new aspect of the story comes to light.

Summary

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Briefly. Descartes’ Meditations On First Philosophy

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Descartes’ Dualism

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Contending against the prevailing view that Cartesian dualism is fundamental to understanding Descartes’s philosophy, Gordon Baker and Katherine Morris present a controversial examination of Descartes’s philosophy. As the first full-length study of Descartes’s conception of the person, Baker and Morris depart radically from traditional representations of Descartes’s argument about the persona, the cogito, and the alleged mind/body dualism. Contesting the nearly institutionalized view that Cartesian duality is central to understanding Descartes, Baker and Morris illuminate how this reading has put ascribed mistakingly, erroneously onto Descartes. They show controversially, how this interpretation has led to both abuse both within philosophy and beyond it. Refusing to draw a distinction between the mind and the body in traditional ways, Baker and Morris open up interesting ways of conceptualizing both ourselves and philosophy itself.