How To Read Descartes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How To Read Descartes write by John G. Cottingham. This book was released on 2014-04-03. How To Read Descartes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'I realized it was necessary to demolish everything and start again right from the foundations, if I wanted to establish anything in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.' Ren Descartes Revered as the 'father of modern philosophy', Descartes is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, but his ideas are also highly controversial and have been subjected to intense criticism by present-day philosophers. John Cottingham examines Descartes's remarkable attempt to construct a new basis for scientific understanding, his famous first principle, 'I am thinking, therefore I exist,' and his notorious and often misunderstood account of the relation between mind and body. He also tackles fascinating and lesser-known aspects of Descartes's philosophy, including his views on language, human and animal nature, the role of the emotions in the good life, and the place of God in science and ethics. Extracts are taken from the whole range of Descartes's writings, including the Discourse on the Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, Principles of Philosophy and his last book, the Passions of the Soul, as well as extracts from his philosophical letters.
Descartes' Dream
Descartes' Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Descartes' Dream write by Philip J. Davis. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Descartes' Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These provocative essays take a modern look at the 17th-century thinker's dream, examining the influences of mathematics on society, particularly in light of technological advances. They survey the conditions that elicit the application of mathematic principles; the applications' effectiveness; and how applied mathematics transform perceptions of reality. 1987 edition.
Descartes' Error
Descartes' Error - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Descartes' Error write by Antonio Damasio. This book was released on 2005-09-27. Descartes' Error available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended, until recently, to concentrate on the cognitive aspects of brain function, disregarding emotions. This attitude began to change with the publication of Descartes’ Error in 1995. Antonio Damasio—"one of the world’s leading neurologists" (The New York Times)—challenged traditional ideas about the connection between emotions and rationality. In this wondrously engaging book, Damasio takes the reader on a journey of scientific discovery through a series of case studies, demonstrating what many of us have long suspected: emotions are not a luxury, they are essential to rational thinking and to normal social behavior.
Descartes' Bones
Descartes' Bones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Descartes' Bones write by Russell Shorto. This book was released on 2009-08-25. Descartes' Bones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport them back to Paris. Thus began a 350-year saga that saw Descartes' bones traverse a continent, passing between kings, philosophers, poets, and painters. But as Russell Shorto shows in this deeply engaging book, Descartes' bones also played a role in some of the most momentous episodes in history, which are also part of the philosopher's metaphorical remains: the birth of science, the rise of democracy, and the earliest debates between reason and faith. Descartes' Bones is a flesh-and-blood story about the battle between religion and rationalism that rages to this day. A New York Times Notable Book
The Philosophy of Descartes
The Philosophy of Descartes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philosophy of Descartes write by A. Boyce Gibson. This book was released on 2016-08-12. The Philosophy of Descartes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maintaining that it is impossible to understand the work of a philosopher without understanding the previous history of thought and the contemporaneous developments, this book, originally published in 1932, is an in-depth study of Descartes’ philosophy with a strong emphasis on the historical approach. It covers Descartes’ early life and education, before continuing to discuss his method of doubt, the existence of God, the scientific interpretation of nature, the unity of knowledge, the attributes of God and free-will.
