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Descartes' Treatise on Man and its Reception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Descartes' Treatise on Man and its Reception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 43
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This edited volume features 20 essays written by leading scholars
that provide a detailed examination of L'Homme by Rene Descartes.
It explores the way in which this work developed themes not just on
questions such as the circulation of the blood, but also on central
questions of perception and our knowledge of the world. Coverage
first offers a critical discussion on the different versions of
L'Homme, including the Latin, French, and English translations and
the 1664 editions. Next, the authors examine the early reception of
the work, from the connection of L'Homme to early-modern Dutch
Cartesianism to Nicolas Steno's criticism of the work and how
Descartes' clock analogy is used to defend two different
conceptions of the articulation between anatomical observations and
functional hypotheses. The book then goes on to explore L'Homme and
early-modern anthropology as well as the how the work has been
understood and incorporated into the works of scientists,
physicians, and philosophers over the last 150 years. Overall,
readers will discover how the trend over the last few decades to
understand human cognition in neuro-physiological terms can be seen
to be not something unprecedented, but rather a revival of a way of
dealing with these fundamental questions that was pioneered by
Descartes.
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