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62Using the passionsIn Martin Pickavé & Lisa Shapiro (eds.), Emotion and cognitive life in Medieval and early modern philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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50Physiologia: natural philosophy in late Aristotelian and Cartesian thoughtCornell University Press. 1996.Physiologia provides an accessible and comprehensive guide to late Aristotelian natural philosophy; with that context in hand, it offers new interpretations of major themes in Descartes’s natural philosophy.
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44My title, of course, is an exaggeration. The world no more became mathematical in the seventeenth century than it became ironic in the nineteenth. Either it was mathematical all along, and seventeenth-century philosophers discovered it was, or, if it wasn’t, it could not have been made so by a few books. What became mathematical was physics, and whether that has any bearing on the furniture of the universe is one topic of this paper. Garber says, and I agree, that for Descartes bodies are the th…Read more
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Washington University in St. LouisProfessor
St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mathematics |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |