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Monstrosity and the Limits of the Intellect: Philosophy as Teratomachy in Descartes
Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2011 For Descartes, nature must be interpreted through a limited number of simple laws used to describe the multiplicity of the real, focusing on the rule and normality rather than on the exception and monstrosity.
Filippo Del Luchesse
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Descartes on Physical Vacuum: Rationalism in Natural-Philosophical Debate [PDF]
, 2013 Descartes is notorious for holding a strong anti-vacuist position. On his view, according to the standard reading, empty space not only does not exist in nature, but it is logically impossible.
Zepeda, Joseph
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This study shows that stem‐like cells isolated from breast cancer brain metastases drive the spread and growth of tumors in the brain. Among them, a highly adhesive subgroup initiates metastasis and resists many drugs. By closely reflecting patient tumors, these models help identify new targets and improve the development of effective treatments ...
Stefania Faletti +27 more
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Descartes: filósofo de la moral
Estudios de Filosofía, 2017 Descartes se dedica a la ciencia con un fin práctico y no teórico, lo que permite verlo como un filósofo de la moral antes que como filósofo especulativo o de la ciencia.
Julio Morales Guerrero
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Idealist Individualism or Indigenous Cosmology; Finding Entanglement across Species and Strata
Religions, 2022 Science and technology have been associated with modern Enlightenment, in a manner that elevated the rational mind over emotions and the body, a separation of the subjective mind from the object of observation, universal categories, objective observation,
Ruth Irwin
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Perfect Solidity: Natural Laws and the Problem of Matter in Descartes' Universe [PDF]
, 1996 In the Principles of Philosophy, Descartes attempts to explicate the well-known phenomena of varying bodily size through an appeal to the concept of "solidity," a notion that roughly corresponds to our present-day concept of density.
Slowik, Edward
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar +2 more
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Medicine and “True Philosophy” in Descartes
SententiaeThe article proves that the term “Descartes’ medicine” is appropriate to denote a “useful science” that had to be created. During his lifetime, Descartes never began to create it.
Oleg Khoma
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Ideación, ocultación e interpretación del relato onírico cartesiano
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2022 Los famosos sueños de Descartes han constituido siempre para la historia de la filosofía un incómodo problema, pues dejaban la puerta abierta a la posibilidad de que el origen de la moderna racionalidad hubiese nacido de lo irracional.
Susana Gómez López
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THE SUBSTANCE-ATTRIBUTES RELATIONSHIP IN CARTESIAN DUALISM [PDF]
, 2018 In their book on Descartes’s changing mind, Peter Machamer and J.E McGuire argue that Descartes discarded dualism to embrace a kind of monism. It is intriguing to investigate if the master of dualism could have changed his mind about the central aspect ...
Monnoyeur, Francoise
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