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Spirits and clocks : machine and organism in Descartes
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ISBN: 9780801437649 0801437636 9780801437632 0801437644 Year: 2001 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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Physiologia : natural philosophy in late Aristotelian and Cartesian thought
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ISBN: 9780801486876 0801486874 0801430720 Year: 2000 Publisher: Ithaca (N.Y.) : Cornell university press,

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Physiologia makes accessible, for the first time in English, major themes of sixteenth-century Aristotelianism, the culmination of four hundred years of commentary and criticism. In his incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene supplies the Aristotelian background necessary for understanding the rise of modern science. Physiologia promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of scientific law emerged. Continuities and disruptions between medieval and modern philosophy are set forth in an intellectual context never before available.


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Physiologia: Natural Philosophy in Late Aristotelian and Cartesian Thought
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ISBN: 9780801430725 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Physiologia : Natural Philosophy in Late Aristotelian and Cartesian Thought
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ISBN: 1501723715 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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Sixteenth-century Aristotelianism was the culmination of four centuries of commentary and criticism. Physiologia is one of the first books to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to that tradition in natural philosophy. In an incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene illuminates the continuities and disruptions between medieval and modern philosophy and promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of science emerged.


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Spirits and Clocks : Machine and Organism in Descartes
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ISBN: 1501723723 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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Although the basis of modern biology is Cartesian, Descartes's theories of biology have been more often ridiculed than studied. Yet, Dennis Des Chene demonstrates, the themes, arguments, and vocabulary of his mechanistic biology pervade the writings of many seventeenth-century authors. In his illuminating account of Cartesian physiology in its historical context, Des Chene focuses on the philosopher's innovative reworking of that field, including the nature of life, the problem of generation, and the concepts of health and illness. Des Chene begins by surveying works that Descartes would likely have encountered, from late Aristotelian theories of the soul to medical literature and treatises on machines. The Cartesian theory of vital operations is examined with particular attention to the generation of animals. Des Chene also considers the role of the machine-model in furnishing a method in physiology, the ambiguities of the notion of machine, and of Descartes's problem of simulation. Finally, he looks at the various kinds of unity of the body, both in itself and in its union with the soul. Spirits and Clocks continues Des Chene's highly regarded exploration-begun in his previous book, Life's Form-of the scholastic and Cartesian sciences as well as the dialogue between these two worldviews.


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Physiologia
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ISBN: 9781501723711 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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Spirits and Clocks
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ISBN: 9781501723728 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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Historical dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian philosophy
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ISBN: 9781442247680 Year: 2015 Volume: *129 Publisher: Lanham [etc.] Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Historical dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian philosophy
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ISBN: 0810848333 9780810848337 Year: 2003

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