Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life by Deborah J. Brown, Calvin G. Normore
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Description Brown and Normore show how Descartes accounted for the complex and diverse objects of human experience within his metaphysical system. They argue that, far from reducing them all to two basic categories of substance, mind and body, he recognized irreducible composites that resist reduction and require their own distinctive modes of explanation.
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The seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary invention, discovery and revolutions in scientific, social and political orders. It was a time of expansive automation, biological discovery, rapid advances in medical knowledge, of animal trials and a questioning of the boundaries between species, human and non-human, between social classes, and of the assumed naturalness of political inequality. This book gives a tour through those objects, ordinary andextraordinary, which captivated the philosophical imagination of the single most important French philosopher of this period, René Descartes. Deborah J. Brown and Calvin G. Normore document Descartes' attemptto make sense of the complex, composite objects of human and divine invention, consistent with the fundamental tenets of his metaphysical system. Their central argument is that, far from reducing all the categories of ordinary experience to the two basic categories of substance, mind and body, Descartes' philosophy recognises irreducible composites that resist reduction, and require their own distinctive modes of explanation.
Author Biography
Deborah J. Brown is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland. She is the author of Descartes and the Passionate Mind (Cambridge 2006) and numerous articles on the philosophy of Descartes.Calvin G. Normore is the Brian P. Copenhaver Professor of Philosophy at UCLA. He assisted in producing the Past Masters electronic edition of René Descartes' collected works (Oeuvres Complètes de René Descartes) and is a specialist in medieval philosophy with a particular interest in its aftermath.
Details ISBN 0198836813 ISBN-13 9780198836810 Title Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life Author Deborah J. Brown, Calvin G. Normore Format Hardcover Year 2019 Pages 266 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:137009393; About Us
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