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Rene Descartes had a remarkably short working life, yet his contribution to philosophy and physics have endured to this day. He is perhaps best known for his statement, “Cogito, ergo sum,” the cornerstone of his metaphysics. Descartes did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, and optics. In this book, Sorell shows that Descarates was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of the new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his philosophies to support his discoveries in the sciences.
Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Chapter 1 Matter and Metaphysics
- Chapter 2 The Discovery of a Vocation
- Chapter 3 One Science, One Method
- Chapter 4 'Absolutes', Simple Natures, and Problems
- Chapter 5 Roaming about in the World
- Chapter 6 Paris
- Chapter 7 The Suppressed Physics
- Chapter 8 Three Specimens of a Method
- Chapter 9 A New 'Logic'
- Chapter 10 The Need for Metaphysics
- Chapter 11 The Meditations
- Chapter 12 Doubt without Scepticism?
- Chapter 13 The Theologians and the God of Physics
- Chapter 14 Ideas
- Chapter 15 The Mind
- Chapter 16 Body
- Chapter 17 The Physics made Public
- Chapter 18 The 'Other Sciences'
- Chapter 19 Last Days
- Chapter 20 Descartes's Ghost
- Back Matter
