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To doubt in our hearts: The substance dualism in the light of Peirce's criticism of 'The spirit of Cartesianism' [PDF]
In this article, the author addresses the problem of Cartesian dualism through the prism of Peirce's criticism of the 'spirit of Cartesianism'. The faith in the intuitive knowledge and the strong emphasis on individualism Peirce sees as its two main ...
Risteski Aleksandar D.
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I manuali di filosofia nella prima età moderna. Uno sguardo introduttivo
During the early modern age, the teaching of philosophy pivots on the systematic manual which replaces the traditional ‘commentarium’ also in the schools run by the religious orders of the Catholic Church.
Gregorio Piaia
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“R.C.”: Rosicrucianism and Cartesianism in Joyce and Beckett
This paper explores the possible theosophical and philosophical implications of James Joyce’s recurrent use of the initials “R. C.” in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
Steven Bond
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Domesticating Descartes, Renovating Scholasticism: Johann Clauberg And The German Reception Of Cartesianism [PDF]
This article studies the academic context in which Cartesianism was absorbed in Germany in the mid-seventeenth century. It focuses on the role of Johann Clauberg (1622-1665), first rector of the new University of Duisburg, in adjusting scholastic ...
Hamid, Nabeel
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CARTESIANISM AND CHYMISTRY [PDF]
One of the most difficult, yet interesting change in theseventeenth-century natural philosophy was that of chemistry. This essayfocuses upon Cartesian re-evaluation of the philosophical disciplines,arguing that, from a systematic perspective, chemistry ...
Mihnea DOBRE
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One of the less well-researched areas in the recent renaissance of the study of Reformed orthodoxy is anthropology. In this contribution, we investigate a core topic of Reformed orthodox theological anthropology, viz.
van den Brink Gijsbert, Goudriaan Aza
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Aesthetic Worlds: Rimbaud, Williams and Baroque Form [PDF]
The sense of form that provides the modern poet with a unique experience of the literary object has been crucial to various attempts to compare poetry to other cultural activities. In maintaining similar conceptions of the relationship between poetry and
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Cartesian ovals, as constructed by Descartes in 1637, are a natural generalization of conics; they are irreducible quartic algebraic curves. The author relates these curves to the gardener's construction of ellipses, to the Minkowski product of two circles (where \(\mathbb R^2\) is identified with \(\mathbb C\)) and to the refraction of spherical waves
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Plenty of room left for the Dogmatist [PDF]
Barnett provides an interesting new challenge for Dogmatist accounts of perceptual justification. The challenge is that such accounts, by accepting that a perceptual experience can provide a distinctive kind of boost to one’s credences, would lead to a ...
Raleigh, Thomas
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