Descartes and Cartesianism: Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke

by Stephen Gaukroger (Editor), Catherine Wilson (Editor)

Overview

This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in particular on Desmond Clarke's important contributions to these aspects of Descartes's writings. Stephen Gaukroger and Catherine Wilson split the volume into four distinct parts; Cartesian Science, Mind and Perception, Actions and Passions, and Cartesian Woman. The contributors are internationally known and respected scholars of 17th century philosophy writing on a number of their favourite Cartesian topics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191085192
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	01/19/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	918 KB

About the Author

Stephen Gaukroger was educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. His publications include Explanatory Structures (1978), Cartesian Logic (1989), Descartes, An Intellectual Biography (1995), Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy (2001), Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (2002), The Emergence of a Scientific Culture (2006), The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility (2010), Objectivity (2012), Le Monde en images (2015), and The Natural and the Human (2016). Catherine Wilson is Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. She has written extensively on visual experience in scientific and aesthetic contexts and on Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. She is the author of The Invisible World: Philosophers and the Microscope 1650-1720, recently reprinted by Princeton University Press, Descartes' Meditations: A New Introduction (2003). and, most recently, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (2008). With Desmond Clarke, she edited the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (2011)

Table of Contents

Part I. Cartesian Science
1. Did Descartes Teach a 'Philosophy of Science' or Implement 'Strategies of Natural Philosophical Explanation'?, John Schuster
2. A Virtuous Practice: Descartes on Scientific Activity, Susan James
3. God in Cartesian Science and Cartesian Ethics, John Cottingham
Part II. Mind and Perception
4. Descartes' Mind, Galen Strawson
5. Truth in Perception: Causation and the 'Quasinormative' Machine, Catherine Wilson
6. Descartes and Regius on the Pineal Gland and Animal Spirits, and A Letter of Regius on the True Seat of the Soul, Erik-Jan Bos
7. Cartesianism and Visual Cognition: The Problems with the Optical Instrument Model, Stephen Gaukroger
8. Reintroducing Descartes in the History of Materialism: The Effects of the Descartes/Hobbes Debate on the First Reception of Cartesianism, Delphine Antoine-Mahut
Part III. Actions and Passions
9. Descartes and the Possibility of a Philosophy of Action, Alexander Douglas
10. Regius and Descartes on the Passions, Theo Verbeek
11. Descartes on the Power of the Soul: A Reconsideration, Denis Kambouchner
Part IV. Cartesian Woman
12. Cartesianism and its Feminist Promise and Limits: The Case of Mary Astell, Karen Detlefsen