The A to Z of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy (The A to Z Guide Series) [hardcover title was: Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy]

Publisher

Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, 2010

Publication Date

2010

Language

English

ISBN 10

0810875829

ISBN 13

9780810875821

Binding

Trade Paperback

Edition

First Paperback

Condition

Near Fine

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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 chronology, and to see how Descartes and Cartesianism fit into the general picture, they have written an introduction and a biography. Since everything cannot be summed up in one volume, a bibliography directs readers to numerous other sources on issues of particular interest.

About the Authors

Roger Ariew is distinguished professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Descartes and the Last Scholastics, Descartes among the Scholastics, and Descartes and the First Cartesians; he is the editor or co-editor, of many volumes, including: with Marjorie Grene, of Descartes and His Contemporaries and, with Daniel Garber, of the 10-volume collection, Descartes in 17th-Century England. He is also the editor and translator of Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence, and Pascal, Pens�es, of Leibniz: Philosophical Essays, with Daniel Garber, of Montaigne, Apology forRaymond Sebond, with Marjorie Grene, and of Background Source Materials: Descartes’ Meditations, with John Cottingham and Tom Sorell. Ariew’s research has been supported by fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Science Foundation, and the American Council for Learned Societies

Douglas M. Jesseph is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Squaring the Circle: The War between Hobbes and Wallis and Berkeley’s Philosophy of Mathematics. He is the editor and translator of Berkeley’s De Motu and The Analyst and the editor of the forthcoming three-volume Hobbes’s Mathematical Works.

Tad M. Schmaltz is Professor of Philosophy and James B. and Grace J. Nelson Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Malebranche’s Theory of the Soul: A Cartesian Interpretation, Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes, Descartes on Causation, Early Modern Cartesianisms: Dutch and French Constructions, and TheMetaphysics of the Material World: Su�rez, Descartes, Spinoza. He also has edited or co-edited: Receptions of Descartes: Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe; Efficient Causation: A History; The Problem of Universals in Early Modern Philosophy; and The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism.

Theo Verbeek is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utrecht. He is the author of La querelle d’Utrecht; Descartes and the Dutch: Early Reactions to Cartesianism (1637–1650);and Spinoza’s Theologico-political Treatise: Exploring the “Will of God.” He is the editor of Descartes et Regius: Autour de l’explication de l’esprit and Johannes Clauberg (1622–1665) and Cartesian Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century.

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