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Contents 8 VOLUME 1 6 Abbreviations 18 INTRODUCTION 22 CHAPTER 1: CARTESIAN AND ARISTOTELIAN PHYSICS 32 1. Aristotelian physics: a quick sketch 32 2. Aristotle and Descartes: how many fundamental kinds? 34 3. Aristotle and Descartes: four more differences 36 4. Aristotle and Descartes: teleology 38 5. Descartes and two predecessors 39 6. Aristotle, Descartes and the manifest image 42 CHAPTER 2: MATTER AND SPACE 44 7. ‘Material = extended’: why Descartes wanted this doctrine 44 8. ‘Material = extended’: how Descartes defended this 49 9. Solidity 51 10. Space as extended nothing 53 11. Container space 54 12. Spaces and places 56 13. Space as a system of relations 59 14. The fourth view: space as a separator 60 15. Descartes's ‘neighbour’ account of motion 62 CHAPTER 3: DESCARTES'S PHYSICS 65 16. Smallness of parts 65 17. Subtleness and speed 67 18. Qualitative variety 69 19. Compression 72 20. The integration problem 74 21. Light and movement loops 76 22. Other work for loop theory 78 23. Traction 80 24. Weight 82 25. Was Descartes a ‘new Stoic’? 84 CHAPTER 4: DESCARTES'S DUALISMS 87 26. Property-dualism 87 27. The indivisibility argument for the ‘real distinction’ 88 28. ‘I am unabl

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Bennett, Jonathan;
Language
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