The Cartesian method, construed as a way of organizing domains of knowledge according to the "order of reasons," was a powerful reductive tool. Descartes made significant strides in mathematics, physics, and metaphysics by relating certain complex items and problems back to more simple elements that served as starting points for his inquiries. But 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 ... Read More
The Cartesian method, construed as a way of organizing domains of knowledge according to the "order of reasons," was a powerful reductive tool. Descartes made significant strides in mathematics, physics, and metaphysics by relating certain complex items and problems back to more simple elements that served as starting points for his inquiries. But 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 negative and positive impact of Descartes's method on his scientific and philosophical enterprises, exemplified by the Geometry , the Principles , the Treatise of Man , and the Meditations . Read Less
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Physical description; viii, 161 pages: illustrations; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; Descartes, René 1596-1650 Contributions in methodology. Descartes, René (1596-1650) Méthodologie. Methodology History 17th century. Analysis (Philosophy) History 17th century. Reductionism History 17th century. Philosophy & Religion. Philosophy History 17th century. French philosophy Descartes, René 1596-1650. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.
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