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

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I The initial reception among women philosophers 1 Women philosophers and the early reception of Descartes: Anne Conway and Princess Elisabeth SARAH HUTTON PART II The French reception and French Cartesianism 2 Desgabets`s Indefectibility Thesis - a step too far? PATRICIA EASTON 3 A reception without attachment: Malebranche confronting Cartesian morality JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BARDOUT 4 Huet on the reality of Cartesian doubt THOMAS M. LENNON 5 French Cartesianism in context: the Paris Formulary and Regis`s Usage TAD M. SCHMALTZ PART III Spinoza and the Dutch reception 6 Descartes`s soul, Spinoza`s mind STEVEN NADEER 7 Wittich`s critique of Spinoza THEO VERBEEK 8 Burchard de Voider: Crypto-Spinozist or disenchanted Cartesian? PAUE LODGE PART IV The reception in Rome and Naples 9 Cartesian physics and the Eucharist in the documents of the Holy Office and the Roman Index (1671-6) JEAN-ROBERT ARMOGATHE 10 Images of Descartes in Italy GIULIA BELGIOIOSO PART V The reception across the Channel 11 Mechanism, skepticism, and witchcraft: More and Glanvill on the failures of the Cartesian philosophy DOUGEAS JESSEPH 12 Descartes among the British: the case of the theory of vision MARGARET ATHERTON