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Descartes Reinvented

Hardback

Main Details

Title Descartes Reinvented
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Tom Sorell
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:204
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 160
Category/GenreHistory of Western philosophy
ISBN/Barcode 9780521851145
ClassificationsDewey:194
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 11 July 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In this study, Thomas Sorell seeks to rehabilitate views that are highly unpopular in analytic philosophy and often instantly dismissed. His book serves as an interpretation, if not outright revision, of unreconstructed Cartesianism and responds directly to some of the critique of contemporary philosophy. To identify what is defensible in Cartesianism, Sorell starts with a picture of unreconstructed Cartesianism, which is characterized as realistic; anti-skeptical but respectful of skepticism; rationalist; centered on the first person; dualist; and dubious of the comprehensiveness of natural science and its supposed independence of metaphysics. Bridging the gap between history of philosophy and analytic philosophy, Sorell also shows, for the first time, how some contemporary analytic philosophy is deeply Cartesian.

Author Biography

Tom Sorell is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He is the author of six books, including Descartes (1987), Scientism (1991), and Moral Theory and Anomaly (2000).

Reviews

"Sorrell's interpretations are careful and, by and large, sound, given the intention with which they are offered. Were one of my historicophobic colleagues to ask why Descartes...should be worth studying, I would, without misgivings, direct him to Descarte Reinvented." - Dennis Des Chene, Washington University in Saint Louis