Descartes: An Intellectual Biography
Oxford University Press, USA | July 17, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0198237243 | 520 pages | PDF | 35.66 MB
Oxford University Press, USA | July 17, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0198237243 | 520 pages | PDF | 35.66 MB
Like Daniel Garber's Descartes' Metaphysical Physics, this book goes far beyond the usual treatment of Descartes merely as an epistemologist (although that important aspect of his thinking is explained here in exemplary fashion) to show his larger purpose of creating a comprehensive world view based on the new mechanistic science of Copernicus and Galileo. Though Gaukroger (philosophy, Univ. of Sidney) is concerned principally with Descartes's intellectual development, which is traced from early childhood, the factual details of his life are authoritatively and exhaustively chronicled. Quoting from the philosopher's correspondence, Gaukroger creates a flesh-and-blood Descartes, a man of passion, actively engaged in the world and the concerns of his time.
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