Descartes by Tom Sorell
Rene 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. 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.
Sorell's account well portrays the intensely personal character of Descartes's thought, and in doing so tells us much about the thinker himselfThe pages ... devoted to the Meditations surely constitute the best available introductory sketch of Descartes's classic. * Times Higher Education Supplement *
concise and lucid ... it radiates authority * J. V. Field, Mathematical Reviews *
concise and lucid ... it radiates authority * J. V. Field, Mathematical Reviews *
Tom Sorell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is the author of Hobbes (1986), Moral Theory and Capital Punishment (1987), Scientism (1991), and editor of The Rise of Modern Philosophy (1993) and The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (1995).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192854094 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192854097 |
| Title | Descartes |
| Author | Tom Sorell |
| Series | Very Short Introductions |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2000-10-12 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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