TY - CHAP
T1 - Some Reflections on Gaukroger’s Descartes
AU - Garber, Daniel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Though Stephen Gaukroger worked on a large variety of topics, Descartes seems to have been especially important to him. In this brief essay I would like to explore his unique perspective on Descartes’ thought. As I interpret him, Gaukroger’s Descartes is the Descartes of Le monde, the Descartes who put the Copernican world, viewed through the lens of his vortex theory, at the center of his philosophy, the Descartes whose world was shaken to the core by the condemnation of Galileo in 1633, and whose later philosophy can be read as a passionate response to that cataclysmic event in the history of science.
AB - Though Stephen Gaukroger worked on a large variety of topics, Descartes seems to have been especially important to him. In this brief essay I would like to explore his unique perspective on Descartes’ thought. As I interpret him, Gaukroger’s Descartes is the Descartes of Le monde, the Descartes who put the Copernican world, viewed through the lens of his vortex theory, at the center of his philosophy, the Descartes whose world was shaken to the core by the condemnation of Galileo in 1633, and whose later philosophy can be read as a passionate response to that cataclysmic event in the history of science.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-76037-2_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-76037-2_9
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:86000120186
T3 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (The Netherlands)
SP - 83
EP - 87
BT - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (The Netherlands)
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
ER -