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Soft Underbelly of Reason
Routledge 1998; US$ 151.00Each of the essays in this collection, written by the most respected academics in their fields, provides both an insightful and valuable understanding on the different views of the passions in the Seventeenth Century. more...
Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 35.00This ambitious and important book provides the first truly general account of Francis Bacon as a philosopher. It will be recognized as a major contribution to Baconian scholarship of special interest to historians of early-modern philosophy, science, and ideas. more...
Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00Towards the end of his life, Descartes published the first four parts of a projected six-part work, The Principles of Philosophy. This was intended to be the definitive statement of his complete system of philosophy. Gaukroger examines the whole system, and reconstructs the last two parts from Descartes' other writings. more...
The Blackwell Guide to Descartes' Meditations
Wiley 2008; US$ 113.95Consisting of twelve newly commissioned essays and enhanced by William Molyneux’s famous early translation of the Meditations , this volume touches on all the major themes of one of the most influential texts in the history of philosophy. Situates the Meditations in its philosophical and historical context. Touches on all of the major themes... more...
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture
Clarendon Press 2006; US$ 44.99Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its early development. Rejecting the traditional picture of secularization, he argues that science in the seventeenth... more...
Objectivity
OUP Oxford 2012; US$ 219.99- Is objectivity possible?- Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes?- What would a truly objective account of the world be like?- Is everything subjective, or relative?- Are moral judgments objective or c more...
Descartes' Natural Philosophy
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 241.00The most comprehensive collection of essays on Descartes' scientific writings ever published, this volume offers a detailed reassessment of Descartes' scientific work and its bearing on his philosophy. The 35 essays, written by some of the world's leading scholars, cover topics as diverse as optics, cosmology and medicine, and will be of vital interest... more...
The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 37.00This collection of essays by leading figures in philosophy and the history of ideas provides access to key early modern disputes over what it meant to be a philosopher and to the institutional and political and religious contexts in which such disputes took place. more...
Descartes: The World and Other Writings
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 34.00Descartes' The World offers the most comprehensive vision of the nature of the world since Aristotle, and is crucial for an understanding of his later writings, in particular the Meditations and Principles of Philosophy. This volume offers a new translation of the work, together with a historical introduction and notes on further reading. more...
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