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The Plain Truth: Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism

By: Thomas M. Lennon

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The Plain Truth: Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism

By: Thomas M. Lennon

The skeptic Pierre-Daniel Huet’s Censura philosophiae cartesianae (1689) is the most comprehensive, unrelenting and devastating critique of Descartes ever. It incisively captures all the issues that now interest readers of Descartes: the method of doubt, the cogito, clarity and distinctness as criteria of truth, the circularity of the Meditations, proofs of God’s existence, etc. Naturally, the work provoked great controversy among the Cartesians, who were implicated in various capacities—Nicolas Malebranche as the occasional cause of the publication, and Pierre-Sylvain Regis as the chief defender of the Cartesian camp. What emerges in this study of the controversy is a heroic, defensible Descartes. He possesses hitherto unappreciated answers to the criticisms that have bedeviled his philosophy from his time to ours.

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Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-Century France

Quietism, Jansenism, and Cartesianism

By: Thomas M. Lennon

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Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-Century France

Quietism, Jansenism, and Cartesianism

By: Thomas M. Lennon

How much of our own self- interest should we be willing to sacrifice for love of another? The Quietists answered, all of it, even the salvation of our own soul. Opposing them were the Jansenists, including Arnauld, who saw self-interest as inescapable. The debate swept across French society in the 17th century, with Bossuet and Fénelon on opposite sides, and was multi- dimensional, with political and ecclesiastical intrigue, charges of heresy, and many shenanigans. Initially theological, the debate’s basis lay in differing philosophical concepts of freewill, with both sides claiming support from Descartes’s views. The debate thus highlights interpretation of the Cartesians, especially Malebranche, a prominent participant in it. Nevertheless, this is the first book on the debate in English.

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Instruments and the Imagination

By: Thomas L. Hankins,Robert J. Silverman

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Instruments and the Imagination

By: Thomas L. Hankins,Robert J. Silverman

Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "natural magic" designed to produce wondrous effects. By looking at these and the first recording instruments, the stereoscope, and speaking machines, the authors show that "scientific instruments" first made their appearance as devices used to evoke wonder in the beholder, as in works of magic and the theater. The authors also demonstrate that these instruments, even though they were often "tricks," were seen by their inventors as more than trickery. In the view of Athanasius Kircher, for instance, the sunflower clock was not merely a hoax, but an effort to demonstrate, however fraudulently, his truly held belief that the ability of a flower to follow the sun was due to the same cosmic magnetic influence as that which moved the planets and caused the rotation of the earth. The marvels revealed in this work raise and answer questions about the connections between natural science and natural magic, the meaning of demonstration, the role of language and the senses in science, and the connections among art, music, literature, and natural science. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400864119

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Spectres of False Divinity

Hume's Moral Atheism

By: Thomas Holden,Thomas Anand Holden

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Spectres of False Divinity

Hume's Moral Atheism

By: Thomas Holden,Thomas Anand Holden

Thomas Holden presents a historical and critical interpretation of Hume's rejection of the existence of a deity with moral attributes. Hume's 'moral atheism' is a central plank both of his naturalistic agenda in metaphysics and his secularizing program in moral theory. It threatens to rule out any religion that would make claims on moral practice.

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Oxford University Press

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0199579946

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Reading Bayle

By: Thomas M. Lennon

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Reading Bayle

By: Thomas M. Lennon

A critical but sympathetic treatment of Pierre Bayle. Once known as the 'Arsenal of the Enlightenment, ' his concepts were widely adopted by later thinkers, but since his time there has been nothing but disagreement about how Bayle is to be interpreted

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0802082661

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The Battle of the Gods and Giants

The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715

By: Thomas M. Lennon

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The Battle of the Gods and Giants

The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715

By: Thomas M. Lennon

By the mid-1600s, the commonsense, manifest picture of the world associated with Aristotle had been undermined by skeptical arguments on the one hand and by the rise of the New Science on the other. What would be the scientific image to succeed the Aristotelian model? Thomas Lennon argues here that the contest between the supporters of Descartes and the supporters of Gassendi to decide this issue was the most important philosophical debate of the latter half of the seventeenth century. Descartes and Gassendi inspired their followers with radically opposed perspectives on space, the objects in it, and how these objects are known. Lennon maintains that differing concepts on these matters implied significant moral and political differences: the Descartes/Gassendi conflict was typical of Plato's perennial battle of the gods (friends of forms) and giants (materialists), and the crux of that enduring philosophical struggle is the exercise of moral and political authority. Lennon demonstrates, in addition, that John Locke should be read as having taken up Gassendi's cause against Descartes. In Lennon's reinterpretation of the history of philosophy between the death dates of Gassendi and Malebranche, Locke's acknowledged opposition to Descartes on some issues is applied to the most important questions of Locke exegesis. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400863392

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The Architecture of Matter

Galileo to Kant

By: Thomas Anand Holden

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The Architecture of Matter

Galileo to Kant

By: Thomas Anand Holden

Holden presents a study of theories of the internal architecture of matter in the 17th & 18th centuries. He offers a synthesis of discussions by Galileo, Descartes, Newton and Kant, amongst others, and gives his own interpretation of the debate.

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Problems of Cartesianism

By: Thomas M. Lennon

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Problems of Cartesianism

By: Thomas M. Lennon

The typical Cartesian collection contains papers which treat the problems arising out of Descartes's philosophy as though they and it appeared for the first time in a recent journal. The approach of this collection is quite different. The eight contributo

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0773563962

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Change Management

Fundamentals and Success Factors

By: Thomas Lauer

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Change Management

Fundamentals and Success Factors

By: Thomas Lauer

This book provides a compact overview of the topic of change management. It contains a comprehensible introduction to the basics and techniques of organizational change and provides practical information on the most important success factors. The reading is suitable for practitioners as well as for courses at colleges and universities. Topics such as stakeholder analysis, the use of the Social Intranet for communication and idea generation or intrapreneurship programs and a whole range of new case studies complete this comprehensive work. This book is a translation of the original German 3rd edition Change Management by Thomas Lauer, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2019. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

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3662621878

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Anaesthesia for Minimally Invasive Surgery

By: Thomas Allen Crozier

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Anaesthesia for Minimally Invasive Surgery

By: Thomas Allen Crozier

A comprehensive and practically oriented introduction to the subject minimally invasive or laparoscopic surgery.

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1841101915

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The Baylors of Newmarket

The Decline and Fall of a Virginia Planter Family

By: Thomas Katheder

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The Baylors of Newmarket

The Decline and Fall of a Virginia Planter Family

By: Thomas Katheder

Scholars and arm-chair historians of eighteenth-century America will take great pleasure in reading this exceptionally well-researched slice of colonial history. In The Baylors of Newmarket, author Thomas Katheder has meticulously researched one of the wealthiest and most socially prominent yet least known families in colonial Virginia. Drawing on mostly unpublished sources, including British and French archives and Virginia court documents, The Baylors of Newmarket is the fascinating and tragic story of Col. John Baylor III and his son John IV, including Col. Baylor's relentless pursuit of equine perfection and his son's delusional quest for the perfect Virginia mansion. The Baylors of Newmarket places the family in the larger context of a pre-Revolutionary Anglo-Virginian elite that sought to emulate the British gentry in culture, education, books and reading, dress, furnishings, and behavior. After the Revolution, the Baylors struggled to maintain what was becoming an increasingly outmoded lifestyle. This extensively referenced history also describes in rich detail the library begun by Col. Baylor III and expanded by his son John IV within the context of a strong book culture among the pre-Revolutionary Virginia gentry that has been largely underappreciated by scholars.

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The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux

Papers Presented to Thomas M. Lennon

By: Patricia Easton,Kurt Smith

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The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux

Papers Presented to Thomas M. Lennon

By: Patricia Easton,Kurt Smith

The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux' is a collection of 14 original essays in early modern philosophy by leading scholars in the field presented in honour of Thomas M. Lennon.

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Reading Bayle

By: Thomas M. Lennon

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Reading Bayle

By: Thomas M. Lennon

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Reading Bayle

By: Thomas M. Lennon

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Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-century France

Quietism, Jansenism, and Cartesianism

By: Thomas M. Lennon

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Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-century France

Quietism, Jansenism, and Cartesianism

By: Thomas M. Lennon

How much of our own self- interest should we be willing to sacrifice for love of another? The Quietists answered, all of it, even the salvation of our own soul. Opposing them were the Jansenists, including Arnauld, who saw self-interest as inescapable. The debate swept across French society in the 17th century, with Bossuet and Fénelon on opposite sides, and was multi- dimensional, with political and ecclesiastical intrigue, charges of heresy, and many shenanigans. Initially theological, the debate's basis lay in differing philosophical concepts of freewill, with both sides claiming support from Descartes's views. The debate thus highlights interpretation of the Cartesians, especially Malebranche, a prominent participant in it. Nevertheless, this is the first book on the debate in English.

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The Plain Truth

Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism

By: Thomas M. Lennon

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The Plain Truth

Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism

By: Thomas M. Lennon

This historical study of Pierre-Daniel Hueta (TM)s "Censura philosophiae cartesiana" (1689) and the controversy surrounding it, shows that there are good answers to the perennial standard criticisms of Descartesa (TM)s philosophy: the method of doubt, the cogito, proofs of Goda (TM)s existence, etc.

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The Plain Truth: Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism

The Plain Truth: Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism

Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-Century France

Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-Century France

Instruments and the Imagination

Instruments and the Imagination

Spectres of False Divinity

Spectres of False Divinity

Reading Bayle

Reading Bayle

The Battle of the Gods and Giants

The Battle of the Gods and Giants

The Architecture of Matter

The Architecture of Matter

Problems of Cartesianism

Problems of Cartesianism

Change Management

Change Management

Anaesthesia for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Anaesthesia for Minimally Invasive Surgery

The Baylors of Newmarket

The Baylors of Newmarket

The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux

The Battle of the Gods and Giants Redux

Reading Bayle

Reading Bayle

Reading Bayle

Reading Bayle

Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-century France

Sacrifice and Self-interest in Seventeenth-century France

The Plain Truth

The Plain Truth

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