Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction

by Emily R. Grosholz

The Cartesian method, construed as a way of organizing domains of knowledge according to the "order of reasons," was a powerful reductive tool. Descartes made significant strides in mathematics, physics, and metaphysics by relating certain complex items and problems back to more simple elements that served as starting points for his inquiries. But his reductive method also impoverished these domains in important ways, for it tended to restrict geometry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198242506
• ISBN13: 9780198242505
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"