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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
part |46 pages
Spinoza and the Dutch Reception
part |47 pages
The Reception in Rome and Naples
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