The Good Cartesian: Louis de la Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical Paradigm

by Steven Nadler

Steven Nadler presents a biographical and philosophical study of Louis de La Forge (1632-1666), a medical doctor who was an extremely important, but for a long time relatively neglected, follower of Descartes in the seventeenth century. His sophisticated contributions to the metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and physiology of Cartesianism in the decades after Descartes' death in 1650 were instrumental in making that philosophy the dominant philosophical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197671713
• ISBN13: 9780197671719
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"