Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life (9780198836810)

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 and
extraordinary, which captivated the philosophical imagination of the single most important French philosopher of this period, Rene Descartes. Deborah J. Brown and Calvin G. Normore document Descartes' attempt to 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.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 272 pages
• Dimensions 141 x 217 x 20mm | 444g
• Publication date 14 Jan 2020
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
• Language English
• ISBN10 0198836813
• ISBN13 9780198836810
• Bestsellers rank 897,992

Download Descartes and the Ontology of Everyday Life (9780198836810).pdf, available at ebookdownloadfree.co for free.

DOWNLOAD