Descartes and his contemporaries : meditations, objections, and replies / edited by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene.

Date:
1995
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Publication/Creation

Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Physical description

vii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references (p. 239-252) and index

Contents

The place of the Objections in the development of Cartesian metaphysics / Jean-Luc Marion -- The First objections / Theo Verbeek -- Caterus' objections to God / Jean-Robert Armogathe -- Mersenne's suggestion : Cartesian meditation and the mathematical model of knowledge in the seventeenth century / Peter Dear -- J.-B. Morin and the Second objections / Daniel Garber -- Hobbes's objections and Hobbes's system / Tom Sorell -- Hobbes versus Descartes / Edwin Curley -- Arnauld : from Ockhamism to Cartesianism / Vincent Carraud -- Occasionalism and the question of Arnauld's Cartesianism / Steven Nadler -- Divine will and mathematical truth : Gassendi and Descartes on the status of the eternal truths / Margaret J. Osler -- Pandora; or, Essence and reference : Gassendi's nominalist objection and Descartes' realist reply / Thomas M. Lennon -- The greatest stumbling block : Descartes' denial of real qualities / Stephen Menn -- Pierre Bourdin and the Seventh objections / Roger Ariew.

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  • 0226026299
  • 0226026302