Showing posts with label Descartes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Descartes. Show all posts
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Descartes, science & the mask

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The sciences are now masked; the masks lifted, they appear in all their beauty. To someone who can see the entire chain of the sciences, it ...
Saturday, October 29, 2011

Descartes' Secret Notebook (3)

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Aczel, Amir D. Descartes' Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe . New York...

Descartes' Secret Notebook (2)

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Aczel, Amir D. Descartes' Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe . New York:...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Descartes' Bones & The Best of All Possible Worlds

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I never got around to continuing my review of Russell Shorto's Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Re...

Descartes' Secret Notebook (1)

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"The sciences are now masked; the masks lifted, they appear in all their beauty. To someone who can see the entire chain of the scienc...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

Hans Blumenberg, Descartes, & the agony of modernity

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A few secondary bibliographic references: Three Intellectual Histories of Modernity: Arendt, Blumenberg, and Dewey by Colin Koopman Col...

Descartes as a Moral Thinker

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"'I think, therefore I am', said Descartes, and the world rejoiced at the perspective of the expansion of individual personalit...
Friday, August 13, 2010

Renewal of Materialism (1)

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" The Renewal of Materialism ": Special issue of Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal [New School for Social Research], vol. 22, n...
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Descartes’ Bones (1)

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Shorto, Russell. Descartes’ Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason . New York: Doubleday, 2008. There is a web...