Descartes on forms and mechanisms / Helen Hattab.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 236 pages)Content type: - text
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- Descartes, René, 1596-1650
- Descartes, René, 1596-1650
- Descartes, René
- Mechanism (Philosophy)
- Form (Philosophy)
- Scholasticism
- Mécanisme (Philosophie)
- Forme (Philosophie)
- Scolastique
- scholasticism
- PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics
- Form (Philosophy)
- Mechanism (Philosophy)
- Scholasticism
- Mechanismus Philosophie
- Form Philosophie
- Substanz
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- B1878.M43 H38 2009eb
- 02.02
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-227) and index.
Descartes' arguments against the substantial form -- Aquinas' introduction of the substantial form -- Suarez's defense of the substantial form -- Sanchez's skeptical humanist attack -- The mechanical alternative to substantial forms -- Cartesian science and the principles of Aristotelian mechanics -- Atoms, modes, and other heresies -- Descartes' metaphysical alternative to substantial forms.
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Uniquely, this book traces Descartes' groundbreaking theory of scientific explanation back to the mathematical demonstrations of Aristotelian mechanics.
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