Descartes: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Descartes: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192854094

ISBN-10: 0192854097

ISBN-13: 9780192854094

Edition: 2000

Authors: Tom Sorell

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Ren Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived from the 'cogito' principle first the existence of a material world. But Descartes did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, psychology, and optics. In this book Tom Sorrell shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed…

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List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/18/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.85" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



Texts and Translations


List of Illustrations



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 Sciences'



Last Days



Descartes's Ghost


Further Reading


Index