Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging
whole. But in "Descartes's Changing Mind," Peter Machamer and J. E.
McGuire argue that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural
philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later
works--and that any interpretation of Descartes must take account
of these changes. The first comprehensive study of the most
significant of these shifts, this book also provides a new picture
of the development of Cartesian science, epistemology, and
metaphysics.
No changes in Descartes's thought are more significant than
those that occur between the major works "The World" (1633) and
"Principles of Philosophy" (1644). Often seen as two versions of
the same natural philosophy, these works are in fact profoundly
different, containing distinct conceptions of causality and
epistemology. Machamer and McGuire trace the implications of these
changes and others that follow from them, including Descartes's
rejection of the method of abstraction as a means of acquiring
knowledge, his insistence on the infinitude of God's power, and his
claim that human knowledge is limited to that which enables us to
grasp the workings of the world and develop scientific
theories.
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