Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Descartes, René | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Cottingham, John. "Cartesian Dualism: Theology, Metaphysics, and Science." In Reason, Will, and Sensation: Studies in Descartes' Metaphysics, edited by John Cottingham, pp. 236–57. Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1994.

Explores Descartes' three approaches to the mind-body distinction—theological, metaphysical, and scientific—and the relations among the different arguments.

Funkenstein, Amos. "Descartes and More." In his Theology and the Scientific Imagination, from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, pp. 72–80. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Discusses some of the problems with Descartes' blending of mathematics, physics, and theology, and the relationship between the philosophies of Descartes and Henry More.

Garber, Daniel. "Descartes' Project." In his Descartes' Metaphysical Physics, pp. 30–62. Chicago:...

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