Descartes : a very short introduction
Tom Sorell
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2000
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| Omfang | 116 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Preliminaries; Contents; Texts and Translations; List of Illustrations; 1 Matter and Metaphysics; 2 The Discovery of a Vocation; 3 One Science, One Method; 4 'Absolutes', Simple Natures, and Problems; 5 Roaming about in the World; 6 Paris; 7 The Suppressed Physics; 8 Three Specimens of a Method; 9 A New 'Logic'; 10 The Need for Metaphysics; 11 The Meditations; 12 Doubt without Scepticism?; 13 The Theologians and the God of Physics; 14 Ideas; 15 The Mind; 16 Body; 17 The Physics made Public; 18 The 'Other Sciences'; 19 Last Days; 20 Descartes's Ghost; Further Reading; Index;. - Rene Descartes (1596-1650) had a short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured. This book shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his metaphysics to support his programme in the sciences.
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| Emner | Descartes, René : (NO-TrBIB)90060650
History. Science - Philosophy - History - 17th century. Science. Vis mer... |
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| ISBN | 0192854097
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