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Sorell, Tom

 
9780192854094: Descartes: A Very Short Introduction: 30
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ISBN 10: 0192854097 ISBN 13: 9780192854094
Editorial: OUP Oxford, 2000

Sinopsis

René 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. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived from the 'cogito' principle first the existence of a material world.

But Descartes did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, psychology, and optics. In this book Tom Sorrell 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.

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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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OUP Oxford
Año de publicación
2000
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ISBN 10 
0192854097
ISBN 13 
9780192854094
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
128
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