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Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction

Name: Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 04523930
Price: 202.06 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Emily R. Grosholz
ISBN: 9780198242505

Emily R. Grosholz

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04523930

Publishers Oxford University Press, January 1991

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Cartesian method, construed as a way of organizing domains of knowledge according to the 'order of reason', was a powerful reductive tool. Descartes produced important results in mathematics, physics, and metaphysics by relating certain complex items and problems back to simpler elements that serve as starting points for his inquiries. However, 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 impact, negative and positive, of Descartes's method on his scientific and philosophical enterprises, exemplified by the Geometry, the Principles, the Treatise of Man, and the Meditations.