Branching Off

CONTENTS

Foreword

I. Faces of Knowledge

• Nathan Smith: Mathesis, Mathematics and Method in Descartes’s Regulae: A Reprise 
• Elodie Cassan: Théorie de la science et physique chez Descartes 
• Vlad Alexandrescu: The double question of the individuation of physical bodies in Descartes
• Roger Ariew: Descartes and Leibniz on the Principle of Individuation 
• Lucian Petrescu: Descartes and the Internal Senses. On memory and remembrance 
• Stephen Gaukroger: The unity of knowledge: natural philosophical foundations of Spinoza’s politico-theology 
• Daniel Garber: Leibniz, Theology and the Mechanical Philosophy 
• Sorana Corneanu: Locke on the Study of Nature 

II. Mapping Knowledge and Traditions

• Massimiliano Savini: La Panacea Philosophica de Johann Heinrich Alsted:
  un projet architectonique d’accès au savoir
• Dana Jalobeanu: The fascination of Solomon’s House in seventeenth century England: Baconianism revisited
• Giulia Belgioioso: «Toute hyperbole tend là, de nous amener à la vérité par l’excès de la vérité, c’est-à-dire par la mensonge»:
  les parcours hyperboliques qui amènent à la vérité de Balzac à Descartes 
• Igor Agostini: Caterus on God as “ens a se” 
• Justin E.H. Smith: Descartes and Henry More on living bodies 
• Mihnea Dobre: The Scientific Journals of the Seventeenth-Century:
  Cartesianism in Journal des Sçavans and Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1670 
• Eric Lewis: Sir Kenelm Digby and the Weapon Salve in Seventeenth Century England 
• Brandon Look: Leibniz and Locke on Real and Nominal Essences

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