Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes and in his Reception (Hardcover)

Introduction

1. First Philosophy, Metaphysics and Physics: The Implications of Order in Cartesian and in the Enlightenment Philosophy

2. To Replant and Unroot: Typology of the Cartesian Tree of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century French Histories of Philosophy

3. Between Fake, Unfortunate, and Actual Dependence: The Tumultuous Relationships of Descartes’ Physics and Metaphysics

4. Ontology and the Place of Metaphysics: Taurellus, Gorlaeus, Regius and Descartes

5. Strange Bedfellows: Physics and Metaphysics in Descartes

6. Descartes, A Priori Knowledge, and Metaphysics

7. A Deflationist Solution to the Problem of Force in Descartes

8. Duplex intellectus et sermo duplex: Method and the separation of disciplines in Johannes De Raey

9. The Materialist Reception of the Cartesian Physics in Naples

10. Physics in the broad senseBoyle, Newton and the Baconian metaphysical physics

11. Continuous Creation, Occasionalism and Persistence: Leibniz on Bayle

12. Sticking to the Middle Course. Intellectual ethics and scientific practice in Leibniz’s metaphysical physics