Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in his Reception (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Antoine-Mahut, Delphine; Roux, Sophie

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes' philosophy. This book challenges the standard account in which Descartes prioritizes metaphysics over physics. The essays in this volume offer a fresh contribution to this important debate in early modern philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429787560
• Artikelnr.: 55438630

Autorenporträt

Delphine Antoine-Mahut is Professor of Early Modern Philosophy at the ENS, Lyon. Her research focuses on the tribulations - adventures and misadventures - of Cartesian dualism between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century. She is especially interested by the intersections of metaphysics and physiology. Sophie Roux is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the École Normale Supérieure. She published extensively on natural philosophy in the Early Modern period, but also in philosophy of science (e.g. on thought experiments and on mathematization) and in history of philosophy of science (e.g. on Duhem and on Couturat).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Delphine Antoine-Mahut and Sophie Roux
Part I. Historiography
1. First Philosophy, Metaphysics and Physics: The Implications of Order in
Cartesian and in the Enlightenment Philosophy
Mariafranca Spallanzani
2. To Replant and Unroot: Typology of the Cartesian Tree of Knowledge in
Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Philosophy
Delphine Antoine-Mahut
3. Between Fake, Unfortunate, and Actual Dependence: The Tumultuous
Relationships of Descartes' Physics and Metaphysics in the First Half of
Twentieth-Century History and Philosophy of Science
Delphine Bellis
Part II. Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes' Time
4. Ontology and the Place of Metaphysics: Taurellus, Gorlaeus, Regius and
Descartes
Christoph Lüthy
5. Strange Bedfellows: Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes
Emanuela Scribano
6. Descartes, A Priori Knowledge, and Metaphysics
Desmond M. Clarke
7. A Deflationist Solution to the Problem of Force in Descartes
Sophie Roux
Part III. European Recceptions
8. Duplex intellectus et sermo duplex: Method and the separation of
disciplines in Johannes De Raey
Antonella Del Prete
9. The Materialist Reception of the Cartesian Physics in Naples
Pierre Girard
10. Physics in the broad senseBoyle, Newton and the Baconian metaphysical
physics
Philippe Hamou
11. Continuous Creation, Occasionalism and Persistence: Leibniz on Bayle
Jean-Pascal Anfray
12. Sticking to the Middle Course. Intellectual ethics and scientific
practice in Leibniz's metaphysical physics
Mogens Lærke