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Descartes on forms and mechanisms / Helen Hattab

Publisher New York : Cambridge University Press
Year 2009
Codes ID=2001445236 NCID=BA91031882

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Language English
Size x, 236p. ; 24 cm
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
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-231) and index
Authors *Hattab, Helen
Subjects LCSH:Descartes, René, 1596-1650
LCSH:Mechanism (Philosophy)
LCSH:Form (Philosophy)
LCSH:Scholasticism
Classification LCC:B1878.M43
DC22:111.092
Vol ISBN:9780521518925

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Cent.Lib.,Closed Stacks ,Books(European Lang.)
111.092/H288 0580388443
9780521518925 2009

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