Descartes among the Scholastics
Biographical note
Roger Ariew, Ph.D. (1976) in Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He has published extensively on the relations between philosophy, science, and society in the early modern period.
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history, the history of science, the history of philosophy, early modern philosophy and science, scholasticism, Descartes, and Cartesians.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introductioni
1. Descartes and the Last Scholastics: Objections and Replies
2. Descartes and the Scotists
3. Ideas, before and after Descartes
4. The Cartesian Destiny of Form and Matter
5. Descartes, Basso, and Toletus: Three Kinds of Corpuscularians
6. Scholastics and the New Astronomy on the Substance of the Heavens
7. Descartes and the Jesuits of La Flèche: the Eucharist
8. Condemnations of Cartesianism: the Extension and Unity of the Universe
9. Cartesians, Gassendists, and Censorship
10. The Cogito in the Seventeenth Century
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Introductioni
1. Descartes and the Last Scholastics: Objections and Replies
2. Descartes and the Scotists
3. Ideas, before and after Descartes
4. The Cartesian Destiny of Form and Matter
5. Descartes, Basso, and Toletus: Three Kinds of Corpuscularians
6. Scholastics and the New Astronomy on the Substance of the Heavens
7. Descartes and the Jesuits of La Flèche: the Eucharist
8. Condemnations of Cartesianism: the Extension and Unity of the Universe
9. Cartesians, Gassendists, and Censorship
10. The Cogito in the Seventeenth Century
Bibliography
Index
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