Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas

by Steven Nadler

This is the first full-length study of Antoine Arnauld, one of the most important thinkers of the seventeenth century. It examines both Arnauld's commitment to the methodological and metaphysical principles of Descartes and his own contributions to the metaphysics and epistemology of perception and knowledge. In particular, it scrutinizes the celebrated debate between Arnauld and Nicolas Malebranche, in which Arnauld argued for a view of ideas as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691073406
• ISBN13: 9780691073408
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"