Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy

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Stephen Gaukroger

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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. 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 the first comprehensive examination of Descartes' complete philosophical system.

Author Biography:

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 (Harvester, 1978), ed, Descartes: Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics (Harvester, 1980), Cartesian Logic (Oxford University Press, 1989), Descartes, An Intellectual Biography (Oxford University Press, 1995), Descartes: The World and Other Writings (Cambridge University Press, 1998), ed., The Soft Underbelly of Reason (Routledge, 1998), ed, with J. Schuster and J. Sutton, Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (Routledge, 2000), Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford University Press 2001).

Release date NZ

March 18th, 2002

Author

Stephen Gaukroger

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

27 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

268

Dimensions

153x229x19

ISBN-13

9780521005258

Product ID

2427285

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