Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian

This volume collects some of the seminal essays on Descartes by Daniel Garber, one of the preeminent scholars of early-modern philosophy. A central theme unifying the volume is the interconnection between Descartes's philosophical and scientific interests, and the extent to which these two sides of the Cartesian program illuminate each other, a question rarely treated in the existing literature. This collection will be a mandatory purchase for any serious student of or professional working in 17th-century philosophy, history of science, or history of ideas.

Acknowledgments

ix

Abbreviations, Citations, and Translations

xi

Introduction

1

(12)

Part I. Historiographical Preliminaries

Does History Have a Future? Some Reflections on Bennett and Doing Philosophy Historically

13

(20)

Part II. Method, Order, and Certainty

Descartes and Method in 1637

33

(19)

A Point of Order: Analysis, Synthesis, and Descartes' Principles (with Lesley Cohen)

52

(12)

J.-B. Morin and the Second Objections

64

(21)

Descartes and Experiment in the Discourse and Essays

85

(26)

Descartes on Knowledge and Certainty: From the Discours to the Principia

111

(22)

Part III. Mind, Body, and the Laws of Nature

Mind, Body, and the Laws of Nature in Descartes and Leibniz

133

(35)

Understanding Interaction: What Descartes Should Have Told Elisabeth

168

(21)

How God Causes Motion: Descartes, Divine Sustenance, and Occasionalism

189

(14)

Descartes and Occasionalism

203

(18)

Semel in vita: The Scientific Background to Descartes' Meditations

221

(36)

Forms and Qualities in the Sixth Replies

257

(20)

Part IV. Larger Visions

Descartes, or the Cultivation of the Intellect

277

(19)

Experiment, Community, and the Constitution of Nature in the Seventeenth Century

296

(33)

Sources

329

(4)

Index

333

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Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science

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