ABSTRACT

Receptions of Descartes is a collection of work by an international group of authors that focuses on the various ways in which Descartes was interpreted, defended and criticized in early modern Europe. The book is divided into five sections, the first four of which focus on Descartes' reception in specific French, Dutch, Italian and English contexts and the last of which concerns the reception of Descartes among female philosophers.

part |21 pages

The Initial Reception Among Women Philosophers

chapter |19 pages

Women Philosophers and the Early Reception of Descartes

Anne Conway and Princess Elisabeth

part |64 pages

The French Reception and French Cartesianism

chapter |20 pages

A Reception Without Attachment

Malebranche confronting Cartesian Morality

chapter |14 pages

French Cartesianism in Context

The Paris Formulary and Regis's Usage

part |46 pages

Spinoza and the Dutch Reception

chapter |17 pages

Burchard de Volder

Crypto-Spinozist or Disenchanted Cartesian?

part |34 pages

The Reception Across the Channel

chapter |17 pages

Mechanism, Skepticism, and Witchcraft

More and Glanvill on the Failures of the Cartesian Philosophy

chapter |15 pages

Descartes Among the British

The Case of the Theory of Vision