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The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the ...

The Geometry of René Descartes: with a Facsimile of the ...

René Descartes

with a Facsimile of the First Edition René Descartes. Betti groups; how concepts of topology are useful in math and physics. 25 figures. 57pp. 5 x 81⁄2. 048660747X COMBINATORIAL TOPOLOGY, P. S. Alexandrov. Clearly written ...
Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus

Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus

René Descartes

René Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, George Robert Thomson Ross Stanley Tweyman ... In the Editor's Introduction, Stanley Tweyman provides a fresh and detailed discussion of the relationship between Descartes' Rules for the ...
Discourse on Method and the Meditations

Discourse on Method and the Meditations

Rene Descartes

René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century.
Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings

Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings

Rene Descartes

Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy, the MEDITATIONS, first published in 1641, must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece.
Discourse on Method and Related Writings

Discourse on Method and Related Writings

Rene Descartes

This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science.
Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus

Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy in Focus

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Stanley Tweyman's “Professor Cottingham and Descartes' methods of analysis and synthesis” was presented at the conference celebrating the 350th Anniversary ofthe publication of Descartes' Meditations, in Reading, UK, 3–5 September ...
René Descartes: Principles of Philosophy: Translated, with ...

René Descartes: Principles of Philosophy: Translated, with ...

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Descartes's Principles 0. / Philosophy is his longest and most ambitious work; it is the only work in which he attempted to actually deduce scientific knowledge from Cartesian metaphysics, as he repeatedly claimed was possible.
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

Rene Descartes

This edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while ...
A Discourse on Method

A Discourse on Method

René Descartes

The book is considered to be one of the greatest classics in philosophy.
Discourse on the Method

Discourse on the Method

Rene Descartes

It is impossible to overstate how vital this work is to the entirety of human culture as it stands in the 21st century.
Discourse on Method (Third Edition):

Discourse on Method (Third Edition):

René Descartes

The translation featured in the Third Edition has been thoroughly revised from the 1979 First Edition and includes pages references to the critical edition for ease of comparison.
The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness

The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness

David Gelernter

In the great introspective tradition of Wilhelm Wundt and René Descartes, David Gelernter promises to not only revolutionize our understanding of what it means to be human but also to help answer many of our most fundamental questions ...
Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Richard H. Popkin

Part of the Readings in the History of Philosophy series, this volume features writings by the most important philosophers of the era: Martin Luther, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Amerigo Vespucci, and more, ...
Descartes and Augustine

Descartes and Augustine

Stephen Menn

This book is a systematic study of Descartes' relation to Augustine.
Holomorphic Curves in Symplectic Geometry

Holomorphic Curves in Symplectic Geometry

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Discourse on Method and Meditations

Discourse on Method and Meditations

René Descartes

DIVTwo works by the founder of rational method in philosophical thought: Discourse on Method, which formulates a scientific approach to philosophy; and Meditations, which employs the principles in an exploration of the mind/body distinction ...
Nationalismus und Subjektivität

Nationalismus und Subjektivität

Conny Lösch

Jonathan Sawday Mastering the Deviant Will: Rembrandt, Descartes, and the Creation of Social Identity in the Seventeenth Century* 1. Unity or Fragmentation ? In 1643, Descartes, looking back on his philosophical work of the 1630's in the  ...
The Waning of Materialism

The Waning of Materialism

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Similarly Jeanne, the main alternate of William Confer's patient Rene, claimed to have been with Rene, and watching over her, virtually all of the time since they first 'met' when Rene was four years old. Here again, as with commissurotomy, we ...
Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love

Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love

Andrew Shaffer

This book shows that a genius in the realm of thought can be a dummy in the land of love.” — Tom Morris, author of If Aristotle Ran General Motors What do René Descartes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Jean-Paul Sartre have in ...
Philosophical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology

Philosophical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology

August John Hoffman

Philosophical Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology explains how the topic of evolutionary psychology has developed from the contributions of philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, and Rene Descartes.
Metaphysics and the Tri-Personal God

Metaphysics and the Tri-Personal God

William Hasker

Similarly Jeanne, the main alternate of William Confer's patient Rene, claimed to have been with Rene, and watching over her, virtually all of the time since they first “met” when Rene was 4 years old. Here again, as with commissurotomy, we  ...
Romania Historica et Romania Hodierna:

Romania Historica et Romania Hodierna:

Peter Wunderli

10 Roger Berger/René Boyenval/Pierre Bougard, Rlpeitoiie dei nomi de iamille du Pai-de-Calaii en 1«20 I, Arras 1960, p. 59b, 80a; René Boyenval/René Debrie /René Vaillant, Rlpeitoiie dei nomi de (¡amillz de la Somme en 1«49, Amiens ...
Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue

Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue

Richard Davies

The book also offers fresh interpretations of key passages of the Meditations . Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue offers an original reassessment of some of the most important bodies of work in Western Philosophy.
Parenting Through Divorce: Helping Your Children Thrive ...

Parenting Through Divorce: Helping Your Children Thrive ...

Lisa René Reynolds

Copyright © 2011 by Lisa René Reynolds Originally published under the title Still a Family ©2009by Lisa René Reynolds All Rights Reserved. No part ofthisbook maybe reproduced inany manner without the express written consentofthe ...
Coming Out & Covering Up: Catholic Priests Talk about Sex ...

Coming Out & Covering Up: Catholic Priests Talk about Sex ...

Lisa Rene Reynolds

Catholic Priests Talk about Sex Scandals in the Church Lisa Rene Reynolds, PhD Lisa Rene Reynolds John P. Rutledge. • by Lisa Rene Reynolds, PhD • life, including substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), issues in ...
Learning from the Water

Learning from the Water

Rene Harrop

" --René Harrop, Learning from the Water René Harrop records lessons learned from years fishing the world's toughest trout water.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Rene Cloke

One of twelve classic fairy tales, beautifully illustrated by Rene Cloke.
Mélanges offerts à René Schérer

Mélanges offerts à René Schérer

Constantin Irodotou

René Schérer, né en 1922, a été l'un des fondateurs du département de philosophie de l'université de Vincennes.
Global Standard and Publications - A Pocket Guide

Global Standard and Publications - A Pocket Guide

René Visser

René Visser, Jane Chittenden. Colophon Title: Global Standards and Publications Edition 2012 / 2013 Publication of: Van Haren Publishing, www. vanharen.net Editors: Jane Chittenden René Visser Johannes W. van den Bent ISBN Hard ...

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