Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy - Couverture rigide

Gaukroger, Stephen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521808979 ISBN 13 : 9780521808972

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Gaukroger Stephen

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Towards the end of his life, Descartes published the first four parts of a projected six-part work, The Principles of Philosophy. This was intended to be the definitive statement of his complete system of philosophy, dealing with everything from cosmology to the nature of human happiness. In this book, Stephen Gaukroger examines the whole system, and reconstructs the last two parts, 'On Living Things' and 'On Man', from Descartes' other writings. He relates the work to the tradition of late Scholastic textbooks which it follows, and also to Descartes' other philosophical writings, and he examines the ways in which Descartes transformed not only the practice of natural philosophy but also our understanding of what it is to be a philosopher. His book is a comprehensive examination of Descartes' complete philosophical system.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Educated at University of London (BA, 1974) and University of Cambridge (PhD, 1977). Currently Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Sydney. Previous Books include: Explanatory Structures (1978), Descartes: Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics (1980), Cartesian Logic (1989), Descartes, An Intellectual Biography (1995), Descartes: The World and Other Writings (Cambridge University Press, 1998), The Soft Underbelly of Reason (1998), Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (2000) and Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early Modern Philosophy (2001).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0521808979
• ISBN 13: 9780521808972
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 268