TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hattab,Helen
TI  - Descartes on forms and mechanisms
SN  - 9780511596216
AV  - B1878.M43 H38 2009eb
U1  - 111.092 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Descartes, René,
KW  - Descartes, René.
KW  - Mechanism (Philosophy)
KW  - Form (Philosophy)
KW  - Scholasticism
KW  - Mécanisme (Philosophie)
KW  - Forme (Philosophie)
KW  - Scolastique
KW  - scholasticism
KW  - aat
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Mechanismus
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Form
KW  - Substanz
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - Uniquely, this book traces Descartes' groundbreaking theory of scientific explanation back to the mathematical demonstrations of Aristotelian mechanics
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ER  -