The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics

by Watson, Richard A.

• ISBN13: 9780872204065
• ISBN10: 0872204065
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Method
Method in the History of Philosophy	p. 3
The Downfall of Cartesianism
The Epistemological Background of Seventeenth-Century Cartesianism	p. 21
Simon Foucher (1644-1696)	p. 33
Late Seventeenth-Century Cartesian Metaphysics and Criticisms of It	p. 47
The Controversy Concerning Ideas between Malebranche and Foucher	p. 57
The Orthodox (Nonoccasionalist) Cartesian Way of Ideas	p. 79
An Analysis of the Cartesian Failures to Solve Problems Facing Cartesianism	p. 101
Post-Cartesian Developments of the Way of Ideas	p. 117
Leibniz and Foucher	p. 131
The Downfall of Cartesianism	p. 149
Cartesian Theology
Transubstantiation among the Cartesians	p. 155
The Cartesian Theology of Louis de La Forge (1632-1666)	p. 171
The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics
What Moves the Mind? An Excursion in Cartesian Dualism	p. 181
Descartes Knows Nothing	p. 193
Notes	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 223
Name Index	p. 237
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