Cartesian method and the problem of reduction
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Cartesian method and the problem of reduction
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
Cartesian method, construed as a way of organizing domains of knowledge according to the `order of reason', was a powerful reductive tool. Descartes produced important results in mathematics, physics, and metaphysics by relating certain complex items and problems back to simpler elements that serve as starting points for his inquiries. However, his reductive method also impoverished these domains in important ways, for it tended to restrict geometry to the study of
straight line segments, physics to the study of ambiguously constituted bits of matter in motion, and metaphysics to the study of the isolated, incorporeal knower. This book examines in detail the impact, negative and positive, of Descartes's method on his scientific and philosophical enterprises,
exemplified by the Geometry, the Principles, the Treatise of Man, and the Meditations.
目次
- Introduction
- Descartes's Geometry and Pappus' problem
- Treatment of curves: notion of genre
- Descartes's Principles: physical unities
- Laws of motion
- Historical context of Cartesian physics
- Descartes's physiology
- The Meditations re-examined
- Bibliography
- Index.
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