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Cartesianism is the philosophical and scientific system of René Descartes and its subsequent development by other seventeenth century thinkers, most notably François Poullain de la Barre, Nicolas Malebranche and Baruch Spinoza. [1]
Cartesianism, the philosophical and scientific traditions derived from the writings of the French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650). Metaphysically and epistemologically, Cartesianism is a species of rationalism, because Cartesians hold that knowledge—indeed, certain knowledge—can be derived.
Summary. “Are they human?”. From first contact, this anthropological question has driven the exploration, colonization, religious controversy and social upheaval that paralleled the emergence of Cartesian science, anthropology, technology, politics and finance.
25 kwi 2019 · Abstract. A collection of fifty essays on Descartes and his influence in the seventeenth century. The first section is devoted to various aspects of Descartes’s philosophy (biography, epistemology, metaphysics, natural philosophy (science), mathematics, philosophical theology, etc.).
2 paź 2021 · This chapter focuses on what I consider to be the development of the scopic regime of Cartesian perspectivalism over the last 500–600 years in representational painting. While several scopic regimes have emerged, especially since the twentieth century,...
22 lip 2014 · Cartesian knowledge is grounded in clear and distinct perceptions of reason alone. Truths delivered by reason alone cannot be doubted unless they are not clear and distinct and thus “confused” in Descartes’ terminology.
18 sie 2015 · This article addresses the tension between the defining impact of culture on human experience and the role of the person as agent. Focusing on the sociocultural turn in psychoanalysis, it...
