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Geraud de Cordemoy: Six Discourses on the Distinction between the Body and the Soul
Steven Nadler
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Description for Geraud de Cordemoy: Six Discourses on the Distinction between the Body and the Soul
Hardcover. Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal early modern text, accompanied by a full introduction. Geraud de Cordemoy's Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Soul and the Body (1666) offers a groundbreaking account of the mind and body, and one of the earliest arguments for an occasionalist account of causation. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal work in the history of early modern philosophy. Géraud de Cordemoy's Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Soul and the Body (originally published in French in 1666) offers an account of the mind and the body in a human being. Cordemoy is an unorthodox Cartesian who opts for an atomist conception of body and matter. In this groundbreaking treatise, he also presents one of the earliest arguments for an occasionalist account of causation, with God serving as the true cause of bodily motions in the world and of ideas ... Read more
Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal work in the history of early modern philosophy. Géraud de Cordemoy's Six Discourses on the Distinction Between the Soul and the Body (originally published in French in 1666) offers an account of the mind and the body in a human being. Cordemoy is an unorthodox Cartesian who opts for an atomist conception of body and matter. In this groundbreaking treatise, he also presents one of the earliest arguments for an occasionalist account of causation, with God serving as the true cause of bodily motions in the world and of ideas ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198713319
SKU
V9780198713319
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About Steven Nadler
Steven Nadler has been teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1988. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris), the University of Amsterdam, and Ecole normale supérieure (Paris). Nadler is a specialist in the history of early modern philosophy (especially seventeenth century) and medieval Jewish philosophy, ... Read more
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