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Geschiedenis van de wetenschappen --- Histoire des sciences --- Science --- History --- Philosophy --- -Science --- -Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- -Philosophy --- -History --- Science - History - 17th century. --- Science - Philosophy - History - 17th century.

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This volume collects some of the seminal essays on Descartes by Daniel Garber, one of the pre-eminent scholars of early-modern philosophy. A central theme unifying the volume is the interconnection between Descartes' 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. Amongst the specific topics discussed in the essays are Descartes' celebrated method, his demand for certainty in the sciences, his account of the relation of mind and body, and his conception of God's activity on the physical world. This collection will be a mandatory purchase for any serious student of or professional working in seventeenth-century philosophy, history of science, or history of ideas.

Philosophy --- Descartes, René --- Science --- History --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Knowledge --- Science. --- Descartes, René, --- Arts and Humanities --- Science - Philosophy - History - 17th century. --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650. --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650 - Knowledge - Science. --- Descartes, René, --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650

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This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honoré Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687). It shows how Fabri, while remaining loyal to a general Aristotelian outlook, managed to reinterpret the old concept of “impetus” in such a way as to assimilate into his physics building blocks of modern science, like Galileo’s law of fall and Descartes’ principle of inertia. This account of Fabri’s theory is a novel one, since his physics is commonly considered as a dogmatic rejection of the New Science, not essentially different from the medieval impetus theory. This book shows how New Science principles were taught in Jesuit Colleges in the 1640s, thus depicting the sophisticated manner in which new ideas were settling within the lion’s den of Catholic education.

Fabri, Honoré, 1607-1688. --- Science -- Philosophy -- History -- 17th century. --- Science -- Philosophy -- History. --- Science -- Philosophy. --- Impetus theory --- Science --- History --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Applied Mathematics --- Impetus theory. --- Fabri, Honoré, --- Fabry, Hon. --- Faber, Honoratus, --- Philosophy. --- History. --- History of Philosophy. --- History of Science. --- History, general. --- Motion --- Philosophy (General). --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities

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This book is about the influence of varying theological conceptions of contingency and necessity on two versions of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century. Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) and René Descartes (1596-1650) both believed that all natural phenomena could be explained in terms of matter and motion alone. They disagreed about the details of their mechanical accounts of the world, in particular about their theories of matter and their approaches to scientific method. This book traces their differences back to theological presuppositions they inherited from the Middle Ages. Theological ideas were transformed into philosophical and scientific ideas which led to the emergence of different styles of science in the second half of the seventeenth century.

Contingency (Philosophy) --- Free will and determinism --- God --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Philosophy of nature --- Providence and government of God --- Science --- Causation --- Chance --- Fate and fatalism --- Ontology --- Teleology --- Truth --- Philosophy --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Metaphysics --- Misotheism --- Monotheism --- Religion --- Theism --- Compatibilism --- Determinism and free will --- Determinism and indeterminism --- Free agency --- Freedom and determinism --- Freedom of the will --- Indeterminism --- Liberty of the will --- Determinism (Philosophy) --- History --- Will --- History of doctrines --- Providence and government --- Sovereignty --- Descartes, René, --- Gassendi, Pierre, --- Gassendi, Pierre --- Gassendi, Petrus --- Gassendus, Petrus --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Descartes, René --- Descartes, René, --- Contingency (Philosophy). --- Necessity (Philosophy). --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Dieu --- Providence divine --- Contingence (Philosophie) --- Nécessité (Philosophie) --- Mécanisme (Philosophie) --- Sciences --- Philosophie de la nature --- Volonté --- Histoire des doctrines --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Contributions in mechanical philosophy. --- Gassendus, Petrus, --- Petrus Gassendus, --- Gassend, Pierre, --- Arts and Humanities --- God - Will - History of doctrines - 17th century. --- Providence and government of God - History of doctrines - 17th century. --- Free will and determinism - History - 17th century. --- Science - Philosophy - History - 17th century. --- Philosophy of nature - History - 17th century. --- Gassendi, Pierre, - 1592-1655. --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650. --- Critique et interprétation --- Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655) --- Mécanisme (philosophie) --- Libre arbitre --- Nécessité --- Contingence --- Philosophie des sciences --- 17e siècle --- Gouvernement