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Descartes : a very short introduction
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- ISBN: 0192854097
- ISBN: 9780192854094
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116 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. - Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
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| General Note: | Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987, in series: Past masters. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Matter and Metaphysics -- The discovery of a vocation -- One science one method -- 'Absolutes', simple natures, and problems -- Roaming about in the world -- Paris -- The suppressed physics -- Three specimens of a method -- A new 'logic' -- The need for metaphysics -- The meditations -- Doubt without scepticism? -- The theologians and the God of physics -- Ideas -- The mind -- Body -- The physics made public -- The 'other science' -- Last days -- Descartes's ghost -- Further readings -- Index. |
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| Subject: | Descartes, René 1596-1650 Science Philosophy History 17th century Descartes, René 1596-1650 Criticism and interpretation |
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Descartes: a Very Short Introduction
Tom Sorell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is the author of Hobbes (1986), Moral Theory and Capital Punishment (1987), Scientism (1991), and editor of The Rise of Modern Philosophy (1993) and The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (1995).
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