An original reassessment of Descartes' work which reinserts it in its contemporary context. Explores the notion of intellectual virtue in Descartes' inquiry and argues for a new approach to Descartes' ideas of scepticism and the sciences.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2001-05-24
Language: English
Number of Pages: 384
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..