Descartes-Agonistes by John Schuster
This book reconstructs aspects of the early career of Descartes, tracing the overlapping, intertwined development of his work in physico-mathematics, analytical mathematics, universal method and finally, systematic corpuscular-mechanical natural philosophy.-
Scientific Mistakes and Mistaken Science
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Dissolving Naturalism and Historicism Into Each Other
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Intuitionism Resocialized
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John Venn: Unpublished Writings and Selected Correspondence
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Rationis Defensor
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Cartesian Empiricisms
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The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century
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A Subtle and Mysterious Machine
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Rationality and Reality
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The Discourse of Sensibility
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Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
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The Aristotelian Tradition and the Rise of British Empiricism
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The Force of an Idea
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Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Force of Percussion
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Bernard de Mandeville's Tropology of Paradoxes
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The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge
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How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making
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Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy
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Descartes’ Treatise on Man and its Reception
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The Responsibility of Science
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Mathematical Practitioners and the Transformation of Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Reconsidering Historical Epistemology
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Quantum Causality
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Vis Vim Vi: Declinations of Force in Leibniz's Dynamics
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Empiricist Theories of Space
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An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World
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Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology
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Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Natural Motions Resulting from Gravity
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Causation and Laws of Nature
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Recent Themes in the Philosophy of Science
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1543 and All That
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Trees of Life
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From Discrete to Continuous
“This is a massive book, overflowing with information.. this is a remarkably rich book, synthesizing much scholarship on Descartes' scientific work while contributing bold and novel interpretations of this work and its relation to Descartes' self-conception.” (Andrew Arana, Mathematical Reviews, September, 2017)
“In Descartes-Agonistes: Physico-mathematics, Method, and Corpuscular-Mechanism, 1618–33, John Schuster propounds an exact genesis for Descartes’s scientific work. … Schuster also offers plenty of details and information on the genesis of Descartes’s law of refraction and describes it in its historical context. … I would strongly recommend … . offer much food for thought and, once again, testify to the richness of Descartes’s works and thought.” (Michel Blay, Isis, Vol. 107 (1), March, 2016)
“The book is a grand success: it is meticulously argued, elaborated at great depth, and provides the most developed reconstruction of Descartes’ natural philosophy thus far. … Descartes-agonistes is essential reading for Descartes historians of science and metaphysics alike.” (Emily Thomas, Annals of Science, Vol. 73 (1), 2016)
“This book helps us to deepen and change our view of Descartes’ trajectory and, in sum, to better understand the significance of Descartes’ work in the seventeenth century. At the same time, Schuster provides historians with a different and fascinating approach to the trajectory of ideas and aims of this author belonging to the Scientific Revolution.” (Maria Rosa Massa Esteve, zbMATH, Vol. 1279, 2014)
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| ISBN 13 | 9789400747456 |
| ISBN 10 | 9400747454 |
| Title | Descartes-Agonistes |
| Author | John Schuster |
| Series | Studies In History And Philosophy Of Science |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Year published | 2012-10-23 |
| Number of pages | 632 |
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