The Breakdown of Cartesian MetaphysicsHackett Publishing, 1 janv. 1998 - 240 pages Combines historical research and philosophical analysis to cast light on why and how Cartesianism failed as a complete metaphysical system. Far more radical in its conclusions than his 1966 study The Downfall of Cartesianism (a slightly revised version of which forms the main body of the current work), Watson argues that Descartes's ontology is incoherent and vacuous, his epistemology deceptive, and his theology unorthodox--indeed, that Descartes knows nothing. |
Table des matières
Method in the History of Philosophy | 3 |
Chapter 4 | 47 |
Chapter 5 | 53 |
Chapter 6 | 72 |
of Ideas | 79 |
Chapter 7 | 96 |
Chapter 8 | 117 |
The Downfall of Cartesianism | 149 |
Transubstantiation among the Cartesians | 155 |
The Cartesian Theology of Louis de La Forge | 171 |
What Moves the Mind? An Excursion | 181 |
Descartes Knows Nothing | 193 |
Notes | 205 |
Bibliography | 223 |
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