Książka Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction Emily R. Grosholz

Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction

Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
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Cartesian method, construed as a way of organizing domains of knowledge according to the 'order of r...

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Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
1991
strony
170
EAN
9780198242505
ISBN
0198242506
Enbook ID
04523930
Waga
353
Wymiary
144 x 223 x 18

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Cartesian method, construed as a way of organizing domains of knowledge according to the 'order of reason', was a powerful reductive tool. Descartes produced important results in mathematics, physics, and metaphysics by relating certain complex items and problems back to simpler elements that serve as starting points for his inquiries. However, his reductive method also impoverished these domains in important ways, for it tended to restrict geometry to the study of straight line segments, physics to the study of ambiguously constituted bits of matter in motion, and metaphysics to the study of the isolated, incorporeal knower. This book examines in detail the impact, negative and positive, of Descartes's method on his scientific and philosophical enterprises, exemplified by the Geometry, the Principles, the Treatise of Man, and the Meditations.

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