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Daniel Garber

Descartes' Metaphysical Physics

404 pages, 8 line drawings  6 x 9  © 1992
Series: Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series

Cloth $97.00

ISBN: 9780226282176   Published May 1992

Paper $38.00

ISBN: 9780226282190   Published May 1992

Preface
Abbreviations
Prologue
1. Descartes' Vocation
2. Descartes' Project
3. Body: Its Existence and Nature
4. Descartes against His Teachers: The Refutation of Hylomorphism
5. Descartes against the Atomists: Indivisibility, Space, and Void
6. Motion
7. Motion and Its Laws: Part 1, Preliminaries and the Laws of Persistence
8. Motion and Its Laws: Part 2, The Law of Impact
Appendix
God and the Ground of the Laws of Motion: Immutability, Force, and Finite Causes
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects


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