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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      20 April 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511487309
      9780521452915
      9780521616140
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487309
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.695kg, 346 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 348 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy
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    This is the first book-length study of Descartes's metaphysics to place it in its immediate historical context, the Late Scholastic philosophy of thinkers such as Suárez against which Descartes reacted. Jorge Secada views Cartesian philosophy as an 'essentialist' reply to the 'existentialism' of the School, and his discussion includes careful analyses and original interpretations of such central Cartesian themes as the role of scepticism, intentionality and the doctrine of the material falsity of ideas, universals and the relation between sense and understanding, causation and the proofs of the existence of God, the theory of substance, and the dualism of mind and matter. His study offers a picture of Descartes's metaphysics that is both novel and philosophically illuminating.

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    'Secada's book is rich and interesting, and can be read with much profit.'

    Source: The British Journal for the History of Philosophy

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