Receptions of Descartes : Cartesianism and anti-Cartesianism in early modern Europe /

Schmaltz, Tad M (ed)

Receptions of Descartes : Cartesianism and anti-Cartesianism in early modern Europe / edited by Tad M. Schmaltz - London ; New York : Routledge, 2005 - xvii, 251 p. ; 24 cm - Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 8 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index

Women philosophers and the early reception of Descartes: Anne Conway and Princess Elisabeth / Desgabets's indefectibility thesis - a step too far? / A reception without attachment: Malebranche confronting Cartesian morality / Huet on the reality of Cartesian doubt / French Cartesianism in context: the Paris Formulary and Regis's Usage / Descartes's soul, Spinoza's mind / Wittich's critique of Spinoza / Burchard de Volder: crypto-Spinozist or disenchanted Cartesian? / Cartesian physics and the Eucharist in the documents of the Holy Office and the Roman Index (1671-6) / Images of Descartes in Italy / Mechanism, skepticism, and witchcraft: More and Glanvill on the failures of the Cartesian philosophy / Descartes among the British: the case of the theory of vision / Tad M. Schmaltz -- Sarah Hutton -- Patricia Easton -- Jean-Christophe Bardout -- Thomas M. Lennon -- Tad M. Schmaltz -- Steven Nadler -- Theo Verbeek -- Paul Lodge -- Jean-Robert Armogathe -- Giulia Belgioioso -- Douglas Jesseph -- Margaret Atherton Introduction / PART I. THE INITIAL RECEPTION AMONG WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS -- PART II. THE FRENCH RECEPTION AND FRENCH CARTESIANISM -- PART III. SPINOZA AND THE DUTCH RECEPTION -- PART IV. THE RECEPTION IN ROME AND NAPLES -- PART V. THE RECEPTION ACROSS THE CHANNEL --

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Descartes, René, 1596-1650

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