Early Modern Cartesianisms
Schmaltz, Tad M. (Professor of Philosophy and James B. and Grace J. Nelson Fellow, Professor of Philosophy and James B. and Grace J. Nelson Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
This new comparative study considers the impact of Descartes's thought on early modern philosophy, theology and science. This consideration reveals that competing Cartesianisms emerged in the Netherlands and France during a period dating from the last decades of Descartes's life to the century or so following his death in 1650.