Descartes and the ontology of everyday life /

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Author / Creator:	Brown, Deborah J. (Deborah Jean), 1963- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford scholarship online Oxford scholarship online.
Subject:	Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650. Ontology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14129201

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Other authors / contributors:	Normore, Calvin G., 1948- author.
ISBN:	9780191881688 (ebook) : No price
Notes:	This edition also issued in print: 2019. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 15, 2019).
Summary:	The 17th century was a period of extraordinary invention, discovery and revolutions in scientific, social and political orders. It was a time of expansive automation, biological discovery, rapid advances in medical knowledge, of animal trials and a questioning of the boundaries between species, human and non-human, between social classes, and of the assumed naturalness of political inequality. This text gives a tour through those objects, ordinary and extraordinary, which captivated the philosophical imagination of the single most important French philosopher of this period, René Descartes. Deborah J. Brown and Calvin G. Normore document Descartes' attempt to make sense of the complex, composite objects of human and divine invention, consistent with the fundamental tenets of his metaphysical system.
Target Audience:	Specialized.
Other form:	Print version : 9780198836810

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