| Reviews |
| - 'Sorell's account well portrays the intensely personal character of Descartes's thought, and in doing so tells us much about the thinker himself. The pages ... devoted to the Meditations surely constitute the best available introductory sketch of Descartes's classic.' - Times Higher Education Supplement
- 'concise and lucid ... it radiates authority' - J. V. Field, Mathematical Reviews
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| Description | | - The best introduction to Descartes aimed at non-specialists
- Descartes is considered the founder of modern philosophy, and his work is studied in all undergraduate philosophy courses
- He is best known for the statement 'Cogito, ergo sum' ('I think, therefore I am')
- Takes account of Descartes's scientific work as well as his philosophy, including his investigations into physics, mathematics, psychology, and optics
- First published as part of the Past Masters series; life sales over 15,000 copies
- Now reissued as a Very Short Introduction, along with other new philosophy titles in the series.
| René Descartes (1596-1650) had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived from the 'cogito' principle first the existence of a material world.
But Descartes did not
intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, psychology, and optics. In this book Tom Sorrell shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his metaphysics to support his programme in the sciences. |
| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Tom Sorell, Professor of Philosophy, University of Essex
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