Author | Watson, Richard A. author |
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Title | The Downfall of Cartesianism 1673-1712 [electronic resource] : A Study of Epistemological Issues in Late 17th Century Cartesianism / by Richard A. Watson |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1966 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2962-9 |
Descript | VIII, 158 p. online resource |
I. Introduction -- A Characterization of a Scholastic Explanation of Perception and Knowing -- The Development of the Distinction between Primary and Secondary Qualities before Descartes -- II. Simon Fougher -- Life and Works -- His Academic Scepticism and his Positive Position -- III. Late 17th Century Cartesian Metaphysics and Criticisms of it -- A Model Late 17th Century Cartesian Metaphysical System -- Foucherโs Major Criticisms of Cartesian Metaphysics -- IV. The Controversy Concerning Ideas Between Malebranche and Foucher -- Foucherโs Reading of the First Volume of the First Edition of Malebrancheโs Recherche -- Foucherโs Criticisms of the Malebranchian Way of Ideas -- Malebrancheโs Response to Foucher and the Failure of the Malebranchian Way of Ideas -- V. The Orthodox (Non-Occasionalist) Cartesian Way of Ideas -- Robert Desgabets: The Orthodox Cartesian Suggestion of Non-resembling Representative Ideas -- Foucherโs Reply to Desgabets -- Louis de La Forge: The Orthodox Cartesian Dependence upon God -- Jacque Rohault: The Denial of the Causal Likeness Principle -- Pierre-Sylvain Rรฉgis: The Dependence upon Inexplicable Causal Relations -- Antoine Le Grand: Ideas as Natureโs Signs -- Antoine Arnauld: Representative Perceptions -- VI. An Analysis of the Cartesian Failures to Solve Problems Facing Cartesianism -- Ideas as Natural Signs -- The Mechanical Notion of Causation -- External Ideas -- Direct Acquaintance -- The Cartesian Dependence upon the Likeness Principles and the Ontology of Substance and Modification -- VII. Post-Cartesian Developments of the Way of Ideas -- Monistic Solutions to Cartesian Problems -- John Locke -- George Berkeley -- David Hume -- VIII. Leibniz and Foucher -- The Correspondence between Leibniz and Foucher Concerning First Principles, Certain Knowledge, and the External World -- Leibnizโs New System and Foucherโs Criticisms of It -- Leibnizโs Notion of Matter -- Leibnizโs Solutions to Cartesian Problems -- IX. Conclusion -- Appendix I A Table of the Principles of a Lateth Century Cartesian Metaphysical System -- Appendix II. A Schematic Outline of Foucherโs Criticisms of Car- tesianism -- Index of Names