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Descartes : a very short introduction / Tom Sorell.

by Sorell, Tom.

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Oxford University Press, 2000.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650.

Philosophers -- France.

Very short introductions ; 30.

9780192854094 (pbk.)

0192854097 (pbk.)

116 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

"First published 1987 as an Oxford University Press paperback ; reissued 1996."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Rene Descartes had a remarkably short working life, and his output was small, yet his contributions to philosophy and science have endured to the present day. He is perhaps best known for his statement 'Cogito, ergo sum'. By a mixture of 'intuition' and 'deduction' Descartes derived from the 'cogito' principle the existence of a material world. But Descartes did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, psychology, and optics. In this book Tom Sorell shows that Descartes was, above all, and advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and the he developed his metaphysics to support his programme in the sciences."--Book jacket.

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