Renà Descartes revolutionized the method of intellectual inquiry. Tarek Dika presents a systematic interpretation and defense of Descartes' method and its efficacy, and demonstrates the fruits of this interpretation applied to metaphysics, optics, and mathematics.
Renà Descartes revolutionized the method of intellectual inquiry. Tarek Dika presents a systematic interpretation and defense of Descartes' method and its efficacy, and demonstrates the fruits of this interpretation applied to metaphysics, optics, and mathematics.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Tarek Dika is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. In 2016-2021, he was an Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies and a Faculty Member in the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame, where he was also a Fellow in the Medieval Institute and a Concurrent Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. In 2013-2016, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. Dika currently serves on the Comité de Lecture of Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale.
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* Preface * Abbreviations * Introduction * Descartes's Method: Universality without Uniformity * Part I * The Habitual Unity of Science: Aquinas to Descartes * 1: The Habitual Unity of Individual Sciences: Aquinas to Suárez * 2: The Habitual Unity of Science: Descartes * Part II * The Operations and Culture of the Method * 3: The Operations of the Method: Intuition, Deduction, and Enumeration * 4: The Culture of the Method: The Methodological Function of Mathesis universalis * Part III * The First Problem of the Method: The "Noblest Example" * 5: Defining the Problem of the Limits of Knowledge in Rules * 6: Descartes's Theory of the Faculties in Rules * 7: Descartes's Theory of Simple Natures in Rules * 8: The Origins of Cartesian Dualism in Rule 12 * Part IV * Applications: Perfectly and Imperfectly Understood Problems * 9: Perfectly Understood Problems: Method and Mathematics in Rules 13-21 * 10: Imperfectly Understood Problems: Descartes's Deduction of the Law of Refraction and the Shape of the Anaclastic Lens in Rule 8 * Part V * Beyond Rules * 11: Descartes's Method after Rules * Conclusion * Appendix * Bibliography * Index
* Preface * Abbreviations * Introduction * Descartes's Method: Universality without Uniformity * Part I * The Habitual Unity of Science: Aquinas to Descartes * 1: The Habitual Unity of Individual Sciences: Aquinas to Suárez * 2: The Habitual Unity of Science: Descartes * Part II * The Operations and Culture of the Method * 3: The Operations of the Method: Intuition, Deduction, and Enumeration * 4: The Culture of the Method: The Methodological Function of Mathesis universalis * Part III * The First Problem of the Method: The "Noblest Example" * 5: Defining the Problem of the Limits of Knowledge in Rules * 6: Descartes's Theory of the Faculties in Rules * 7: Descartes's Theory of Simple Natures in Rules * 8: The Origins of Cartesian Dualism in Rule 12 * Part IV * Applications: Perfectly and Imperfectly Understood Problems * 9: Perfectly Understood Problems: Method and Mathematics in Rules 13-21 * 10: Imperfectly Understood Problems: Descartes's Deduction of the Law of Refraction and the Shape of the Anaclastic Lens in Rule 8 * Part V * Beyond Rules * 11: Descartes's Method after Rules * Conclusion * Appendix * Bibliography * Index
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