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Branching Off. The Early Moderns in Quest for the Unity of Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Vlad Alexandrescu (ed.)

Publisher
Zeta Books
Year
2009
Tongue
English, French
Leaves
419
Series
Foundations of Modern Thought, 1
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Vlad Alexandrescu: Foreword

I. Faces of knowledge

Nathan Smith: Mathesis, Mathematics and Method in Descartes’s Regulae: A Reprise
Elodie Cassan: Théorie de la science et physique chez Descartes
Vlad Alexandrescu: The double question of the individuation of physical bodies in Descartes
Roger Ariew: Descartes and Leibniz on the Principle of Individuation
Lucian Petrescu: Descartes and the Internal Senses. On memory and remembrance
Stephen Gaukroger: The unity of knowledge: natural philosophical foundations of Spinoza’s politico-theology
Daniel Garber: Leibniz, Theology and the Mechanical Philosophy
Sorana Corneanu: Locke on the Study of Nature

II. Mapping Knowledge and Traditions

Massimiliano Savini: La Panacea Philosophica de Johann Heinrich Alsted: un projet architectonique d’accès au savoir
Dana Jalobeanu: The fascination of Solomon’s House in seventeenth century England: Baconianism revisited
Giulia Belgioioso: «Toute hyperbole tend là, de nous amener à la vérité par l’excès de la vérité, c’est-à-dire par la mensonge»: les parcours hyperboliques qui amènent à la vérité de Balzac à Descartes
Igor Agostini: Caterus on God as “ens a se”
Justin E.H. Smith: Descartes and Henry More on living bodies
Mihnea Dobre: The Scientific Journals of the Seventeenth-Century: Cartesianism in Journal des Sçavans and Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1670
Eric Lewis: Sir Kenelm Digby and the Weapon Salve in Seventeenth Century England
Brandon Look: Leibniz and Locke on Real and Nominal Essences

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