Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in his Reception

ISBN-13: 9781138351448 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 292 str.

Delphine Antoine-Mahut; Sophie Roux

Opis

 This volume explores the relationship between physics and metaphysics in Descartes’ philosophy. This book challenges the standard account in which Descartes prioritizes metaphysics over physics. The essays in this volume offer a fresh contribution to this important debate in early modern philosophy.

Recenzje

"The strength of this volume lies in its attention to intellectual history of the sort that is not often discussed in Anglophone historiography, but that is given more emphasis in the work of European scholars." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

O autorze

Delphine Antoine-Mahut is Professor of Early Modern Philosophy at the ENS, Lyon. Her research focuses on the tribulations – adventures and misadventures – of Cartesian dualism between the seventeenth and the nineteenth century. She is especially interested by the intersections of metaphysics and physiology.

Sophie Roux is Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the École Normale Supérieure. She published extensively on natural philosophy in the Early Modern period, but also in philosophy of science (e.g. on thought experiments and on mathematization) and in history of philosophy of science (e.g. on Duhem and on Couturat).