Receptions of Descartes: Cartesianism and Anti-Cartesianism in Early Modern Europe

by Schmaltz,Tad M.

• ISBN13: 9780415323604
• ISBN10: 0415323606
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Receptions of Descartesis a collection of work by an international group of authors that focuses on the various ways in which Descartes was interpreted, defended and criticized in early modern Europe. The book is divided into five sections, four of which focus on Descartes' receptions in specific French, Dutch, Italian and English contexts and one which concerns the receptions of Descartes among female philosophers.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	viii
References and abbreviations	ix
Introduction	xi
TAD M. SCHMALTZ
PART I The initial reception among women philosophers	1	(24)
1 Women philosophers and the early reception of Descartes: Anne Conway and Princess Elisabeth	3	(24)
SARAH HUTTON
PART II The French reception and French Cartesianism	25	(72)
2 Desgabets's Indefectibility Thesis - a step too far?	27	(15)
PATRICIA EASTON
3 A reception without attachment: Malebranche onfronting Cartesian morality	42	(21)
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BARDOUT
4 Huet on the reality of Cartesian doubt	63	(17)
THOMAS M.LENNON
5 French Cartesianism in context: the Paris Formulary and Regis's Usage	80	(19)
TAD M. SCHMALTZ
PART III Spinoza and the Dutch reception	97	(50)
6 Descartes's soul, Spinoza's mind	99	(14)
STEVEN NADLER
7 Wittich's critique of Spinoza	113	(15)
THEO VERBEEK
8 Burchard de Voider: Crypto-Spinozist or disenchanted Cartesian?	128	(21)
PAUL LODGE
PART IV The reception in Rome and Naples	147	(50)
9 Cartesian physics and the Eucharist in the documents of the Holy Office and the Roman Index (1671-6)	149	(22)
JEAN-ROBERT ARMOGATHE
10 Images of Descartes in Italy	171	(26)
GIULIA BELGIOIOSO
PART V The reception across the Channel	197	(38)
11 Mechanism, skepticism, and witchcraft: More and Glanvill on the failures of the Cartesian philosophy	199	(19)
DOUGLAS JESSEPH
12 Descartes among the British: the case of the theory of vision	218	(17)
MARGARET ATHERTON
Bibliography	235	(12)
Index	247