Overview

Receptions of Descartes is a collection of work by an international group of authors that focuses on the various ways in which Descartes was interpreted, defended and criticized in early modern Europe. The book is divided into five sections, the first four of which focus on Descartes' reception in specific French, Dutch, Italian and English contexts and the last of which concerns the reception of Descartes among female philosophers.

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Author:   Tad M. Schmaltz
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780415849258

ISBN 10:   041584925
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   10 April 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1 The Initial Reception Among Women Philosophers; Chapter 1 Women Philosophers and the Early Reception of Descartes, Sarah Hutton; Part 2 The French Reception and French Cartesianism; Chapter 2 Desgabets’s Indefectibility Thesis—a Step Too Far?, Patricia Easton; Chapter 3 A Reception Without Attachment, Jean-Christophe Bardout; Chapter 4 Huet on the Reality of Cartesian Doubt, Thomas M. Lennon; Chapter 5 French Cartesianism in Context, Tad M. Schmaltz; Part 3 Spinoza and the Dutch Reception; Chapter 6 Descartes’s Soul, Spinoza’s Mind, Steven Nadler; Chapter 7 Wittich’s Critique of Spinoza, Theo Verbeek; Chapter 8 Burchard de Volder, Paul Lodge; Part 4 The Reception in Rome and Naples; Chapter 9 Cartesian Physics and the Eucharist in the Documents of the Holy Office and the Roman Index (1671–6), Jean-Robert Armogathe; Chapter 10 Images of Descartes in Italy, Giulia Belgioioso; Part 5 The Reception Across the Channel; Chapter 11 Mechanism, Skepticism, and Witchcraft, Douglas Jesseph; Chapter 12 Descartes Among the British, Margaret Atherton;

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Tad M.Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, USA.

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