San Antonio College Library

This essential work is made up of eight interrelated essays grouped to elucidate two major themes - Descartes' role in the dilemma of modern philosophy, and the relation of his thought to that of his contemporaries.

"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, an advocate and practitioner of a new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his metaphysics to support his programme in the sciences."--Jacket.