The a priori in the thought of Descartes : cognition, method and science /: cognition, method and science. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Jan Palkoska.
• Authors: Palkoska, Jan
• Contents: Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Quotations and Bibliography; Introduction; Chapter One; 1.1 Cogitatio and Its Modes; 1.1.1 Understanding, Will, and Judgments; 1.1.2 Understanding and Its Modes; 1.2 The Modes of Understanding, and Innate Ideas; 1.2.1 Innate Ideas and Dispositions; 1.2.2 Innate Ideas and Implicit Apprehension; 1.3 Clear and Distinct Perception, Certainty, and Scientia; 1.3.1 Compelled Assent; 1.3.2 Metaphysical Certainty and Normativity; 1.3.3 Clear and Distinct Perception, and Scientia; 1.4 Breaking Down the Cartesian Circle; Chapter Two 2.1 Understanding as the Principle of Scientia2.2 Intuitus, Understanding, and Experientia; 2.3 The Objects of Intuitus; 2.3.1 Simple Natures; 2.3.2 Compositiones as Objects of Intuitus; 2.4 The Root of Objective Necessity, and Scientia; 2.5 Deductio; 2.5.1 Construing Deductio in Terms of Intuitus; 2.5.2 Throwing Away the Dialecticorum Vincula; 2.6 Enumeration; 2.6.1 Approbative and Heuristic Enumeration; 2.6.2 Enumeration, Sufficiency, and Ordering; 2.6.3 Inductio, Deductio, and Enumeratio; Chapter Three; 3.1 Links to Mathematical Contexts 3.1.1 Mathematics as a Paradigm of a Universal Method3.1.2 The A Priori in Purely Mathematical Contexts; 3.1.3 The Method of Analysis in Diophantus and Pappus; 3.1.4 The "Algebre des modernes"; 3.2 Analysis in Descartes Mathematics; 3.2.1 A Point of Comparison: Viète s Logistice Speciosa; 3.2.2 Descartes Algebraization of Geometry; 3.2.3 Algebra as an Analytical Problem-Solving Procedure; 3.2.4 Analysis and Synthesis in Pappus; 3.2.5 Descartes Approach; 3.2.6 Scientia and Imagination in Descartes' Mathematics; Chapter Four; 4.1 Mathematicæ, Mathesis Vniversalis and a Universal Method 4.1.1 A Textual Problem4.1.2 The Meaning of Mathesis vniversalis in Descartes; 4.2 A Talk of the Method; 4.3 A Reconstruction of the Universal Method; 4.3.1 The General Modus Operandi; 4.3.2 The Præparatio Comparationum; 4.4 Justification and Possibility of Method; 4.4.1 The Justification Task; 4.5 Universality of the Method and the Unity of the Scientiæ; Chapter Five; 5.1 The A Priori and the A Posteriori in the Aristotelian Tradition; 5.2 Some Aristotelian Strata in Descartes' Conception; 5.3 A Clash with the Aristotelians; 5.3.1 Analysis as an Approbative Tool in the Aristotelian Tradition 5.3.2 Heuristic Analysis in Aristotle5.3.3 Heuristic Analysis in Renaissance Aristotelianism; 5.3.4 Some Similarities to Descartes on Analysis; 5.4. Analysis as A Priori in Descartes; 5.4.1 Culs-de-Sac; 5.4.2 A Speculative Suggestion; 5.5 Coda: Synthesis as A Posteriori in Descartes; Appendix: Abbreviations; Bibliography; General Index
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 396 pages)
• Subjects: 121/.3; Philosophy; A priori; A priori; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443893572; 1443893579
• Related ISBNs: 1443817007; 9781443817004
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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