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  • Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy

    by Douglas M. Jesseph, Tad M. Schmaltz, Theo Verbeek, Roger Ariew ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
    The Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy, Third Edition, centers on Descartes’ philosophy (considered broadly to include his science and mathematics) in the context of 17th-century thought, with attention being paid to its reception. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced ... Read more

    $241.99 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy

    by Dennis Des Chene, Douglas M. Jesseph, Tad M. Schmaltz, Theo Verbeek, Roger Ariew ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
    Descartes is perhaps most closely associated with the title, “the Father of Modern Philosophy.” Generations of students have been introduced to the study of philosophy through a consideration of his Meditations on First Philosophy. His contributions to natural science is shown by the fact that his physics, as promulgated by the Cartesians, played a central role in the debates after his death over ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy

    by Dennis Des Chene, Douglas M. Jesseph, Tad M. Schmaltz, Theo Verbeek, Roger Ariew ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy includes many entries on Descartes's writings, concepts, and findings. Since it is historical, there are other entries on those who supported him, those who criticized him, those who corrected him, and those who together formed one of the major movements in philosophy, Cartesianism. To better understand the period, the authors drew up a brief ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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    A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe

    by Amir D. Aczel ...
    René Descartes (1596—1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space possible.But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side, as well. Almost certainly a member of the occult ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Columbia History of Western Philosophy

    Edited by Richard Popkin ...
    Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a highly approachable chronological account of the development of Western philosophical traditions. From Plato to Wittgenstein and from Aquinas to Heidegger, this volume provides lively, in-depth, and up-to-date historical analysis of all the key figures, schools, and movements of Western philosophy.The Columbia History significantly ... Read more

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  • Serendipities

    Language and Lunacy

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Translated by William Weaver ...
    Series series Italian Academy Lectures
    Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much ... Read more

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  • Descartes

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Tom Sorell ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived from the 'cogito' principle first the existence of a material world. But Descartes did not intend the ... Read more

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  • A Discourse on the Method

    of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences

    Translated by Ian Maclean ...
    by René Descartes ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature resides only in thinking, and which, in order to exist, has no need of place and is not dependent on any material thing.' Descartes'sA Discourse on the Method of Correctly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author provides an informal intellectual autobiography ... Read more

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  • The Restless Clock

    A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

    by Jessica Riskin ...
    A "wide-ranging, witty, and astonishingly learned" scientific and cultural history of the concept of the capacity to act in nature ( London Review of Books).Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the ... Read more

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  • Leibniz

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Maria Rosa Antognazza ...
    Of all the thinkers of the century of genius that inaugurated modern philosophy, none lived an intellectual life more rich and varied than Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716). Maria Rosa Antognazza's pioneering biography provides a unified portrait of this unique thinker and the world from which he came. At the centre of the huge range of Leibniz's apparently miscellaneous endeavours, Antognazza ... Read more

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  • The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture

    by Louis Dupre ...
    The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of modern culture shows that the Enlightenment was a more complex phenomenon than most of its detractors ... Read more

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  • The Discourse of Modernism

    by Timothy J. Reiss ...
    Timothy J. Reiss perceives a new mode of discourse emerging in early seventeenth-century Europe; he believes that this form of thought, still our own, may itself soon be giving way. In The Discourse of Modernism, Reiss sets up a theoretical model to describe the process by which one dominant class of discourse is replaced by another. He seeks to demonstrate that each new mode does not constitute a ... Read more

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