Discourse on Method and Related Writings

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Discourse on Method and Related Writings

Discourse on Method and Related Writings

3.76 (390 Ratings by Goodreads)
paperback | English
Published: 2 September, 1999
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This is the second of a new two-volume edition of the works of Descartes in Penguin Classics. This volume is designed for students who approach Descartes from the point of view of his philosophy of science. Includes DISCOURSE ON METHOD, the most accessible and well-known of his discussions of scientific method; the first seven chapters of the earlier, unpublished work, THE WORLD; as well as a selection of Descartes' correspondence and his replies to his critics.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780140446999
ISBN10 0140446990
Number Of Pages 256
Item Weight 193 g
Product Dimensions 128 x 197 x 15 mm
Publisher / Reseller Penguin Books Ltd
Format paperback
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Rene Descartes (1596-1650), the French philosopher and mathematician, is generally regarded as the founder of modern philosophy. Desmond C. Clarke is Professor of Philosophy at University College, Cork. He has published widely on Descartes and French seventeenth-century Cartesian philosophers.

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