| Description |
1 online resource (x, 236 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-227) and index. |
| Contents |
Descartes' arguments against the substantial form -- Aquinas' introduction of the substantial form -- Suarez's defense of the substantial form -- Sanchez's skeptical humanist attack -- The mechanical alternative to substantial forms -- Cartesian science and the principles of Aristotelian mechanics -- Atoms, modes, and other heresies -- Descartes' metaphysical alternative to substantial forms. |
| Summary |
Uniquely, this book traces Descartes' groundbreaking theory of scientific explanation back to the mathematical demonstrations of Aristotelian mechanics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
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Descartes, René, 1596-1650. |
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Mechanism (Philosophy)
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Mechanism (Philosophy) |
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Form (Philosophy)
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Form (Philosophy) |
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Scholasticism.
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Scholasticism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hattab, Helen. Descartes on forms and mechanisms. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2009 9780521518925 (DLC) 2009016997 (OCoLC)297147105 |
| ISBN |
9780511596216 (electronic book) |
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0511596219 (electronic book) |
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9780511593154 (electronic book) |
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0511593155 (electronic book) |
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9780511595080 (electronic book) |
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0511595085 (electronic book) |
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9780521518925 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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052151892X (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612316555 |
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