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Descartes : a very short introduction

Author: Tom Sorell
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Series: Very short introductions, 30.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Descartes did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, psychology, and optics. In this book Tom Sorell shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his metaphysics to support his programme in the sciences."--BOOK JACKET.
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Named Person: René Descartes; René Descartes; René Descartes
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Tom Sorell
ISBN: 0192854097 9780192854094
OCLC Number: 47443531
Notes: Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987, in series: Past masters.
Description: 116 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Very short introductions, 30.
Responsibility: Tom Sorell.
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"Descartes did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, psychology, and optics. In this book Tom Sorell shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his metaphysics to support his programme in the sciences."--BOOK JACKET.

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