Descartes on Forms and Mechanisms

By:

Hattab, Helen

Contributor(s):

Hattab, Helen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Cambridge University Press 2011Description: 236pISBN:

9781107405158

DDC classification:

N71.1DR H288

Partial contents:

PART I RESURRECTING THE SUBSTANTIAL FORM 15 1 Descartes` arguments against the substantial form 16 2 Aquinas`introduction of the substantial form 31 3 Suarez`s defense of the substantial form 40 PART II CHALLENGING THE SUBSTANTIAL FORM 65 4 Sanchez`s skeptical humanist attack 69 5 The mechanical alternative to substantial forms 85 6 Cartesian science and the principles of Aristotelian mechanics 120 PART III ELIMINATING SUBSTANTIAL FORMS 7 Atoms, modes, and other heresies 8 Descartes` metaphysical alternative to substantial forms

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