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Author:   Peter Anstey (University of Otago, New Zealand) ,  Dana Jalobeanu (Western University “Vasile Goldis,” Romania)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780815371915

ISBN 10:   0815371918
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   28 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Part I. Cartesian Matter 1. The Vanishing Nature of Body in Descartes’s Natural Philosophy. Mihnea Dobre 2. The New Matter Theory and its Epistemology: Descartes (and Late Scholastics) on Hypotheses and Moral Certainty. Roger Ariew Part II. Matter, Mechanism, and Medicine 3. Post-Cartesian Atomism: the Case of François Bernier. Vlad Alexandrescu 4. The Matter of Medicine: New Medical Matter Theories in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England. Peter Anstey 5. Without God: Gravity as a Relational Quality of Matter in Newton’s Treatise. Eric Schliesser Part III. Matter and the Laws of Motion 6. The Cartesians of the Royal Society: The Debate Over Collisions and the Nature of Body (1669–1670). Dana Jalobeanu 7. On Composite Systems: Descartes, Newton, and the Law-Constitutive Approach. Katherine Brading 8. Huygens, Wren, Wallis, and Newton on Rules of Impact and Reflection. Gemma Murray, William Harper, and Curtis Wilson Part IV: Leibniz and Hume 9. Leibniz, Body, and Monads. Daniel Garber 10. Leibniz on Void and Matter. Sorin Costreie 11. Hume on the Distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities. Jani Hakkarainen

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Dana Jalobeanu is Lecturer in Philosophy and program director at the research center Foundations of Early Modernity at the University of Bucharest. Her current research focuses on the emergence of early modern experimental philosophy, with a special interest in the writings of Francis Bacon and their reception. She is the author of The Invention of Modernity: Natural Philosophy and Theology in the Seventeenth Century (in Romanian), Cluj: Napoca Star, 2006. Peter R. Anstey is the inaugural Professor of Early Modern Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago. His research focuses on early modern philosophy with special reference to the writings of John Locke and Robert Boyle. He is the author of The Philosophy of Robert Boyle, London: Routledge, 2000.

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