The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics
Language: English
Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis/Cambridge, 1998
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- Title
- The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics
- Author
- Richard A. Watson
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis/Cambridge
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0872204065
- ISBN 13
- 9780872204065
- Illustrator
- Cover design by Dan Kirklin
Combines historical research and philosophical analysis to cast light on why and how Cartesianism failed as a complete metaphysical system. Far more radical in its conclusions than his 1966 study The Downfall of Cartesianism (a slightly revised version of which forms the main body of the current work), Watson argues that Descartes's ontology is incoherent and vacuous, his epistemology deceptive, and his theology unorthodox--indeed, that Descartes knows nothing.
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Review
Original and stimulating. . . . The four new chapters deserve close attention. . . . Readers will await further studies by Richard A. Watson all the more impatiently. --Jean-Luc Marion, Archives de Philosophie
Downfall is required reading for anyone doing early modern philosophy, and its reappearance is welcome and long overdue. --Steven Nadler, International Studies in Philosophy
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