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This collection of original essays deals with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in particular on Desmond Clarke´s important contributions to these aspects of Descartes´s writings.

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This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in particular on Desmond Clarke´s important contributions to these aspects of Descartes´s writings.

Stephen Gaukroger and Catherine Wilson split the volume into four distinct parts; Cartesian Science, Mind and Perception, Actions and Passions, and Cartesian Woman. The contributors are internationally known and respected scholars of 17th century philosophy writing on a number of their favourite Cartesian topics.

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One of the most pleasing features of this collection is the rather striking, and often controversial, nature of the theses being defended. There is no doubt that the authors have detailed knowledge of Descartes´ corpus and a deep understanding of the issues involved in their subjects. ... It is clear that the authors wanted to focus on those topics that most benefitted from Desmond Clarke´s work, and this was done very well. Marcy P. Lascano, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Stephen Gaukroger was educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. His publications include Explanatory Structures (1978), Cartesian Logic (1989), Descartes, An Intellectual Biography (1995), Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy (2001), Descartes´ System of Natural Philosophy (2002),
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture (2006), The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility (2010), Objectivity (2012), Le Monde en images (2015), and The Natural and the Human (2016).

Catherine Wilson is Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. She has written extensively on visual experience in scientific and aesthetic contexts and on Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. She is the author of The Invisible World: Philosophers and the Microscope 1650-1720, recently reprinted by Princeton University Press, Descartes´ Meditations: A New Introduction (2003). and, most recently, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (2008).
With Desmond Clarke, she edited the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (2011)

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