Descartes and Cartesianism
Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke
Edited by Stephen Gaukroger and Catherine Wilson
Author Information
Edited by Stephen Gaukroger, University of Sydney, and Catherine Wilson, University of York
Stephen Gaukroger was educated at the Universities of London and Cambridge. He is Professor Emeritus of History of Philosophy and History of Science at the University of Sydney. His publications include Explanatory Structures (1978), Cartesian Logic (1989), Descartes, An Intellectual Biography (1995), Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy (2001), Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (2002), The Emergence of a Scientific Culture (2006), The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility (2010), Objectivity (2012), Le Monde en images (2015), and The Natural and the Human (2016).
Catherine Wilson is Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York. She has written extensively on visual experience in scientific and aesthetic contexts and on Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. She is the author of The Invisible World: Philosophers and the Microscope 1650-1720, recently reprinted by Princeton University Press, Descartes' Meditations: A New Introduction (2003). and, most recently, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (2008). With Desmond Clarke, she edited the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe (2011)
Contributors:
Delphine Antoine-Mahut, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Erik-Jan Bos, Radboud University, Nijmegen
John Cottingham, Reading University
Karen Detlefsen, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander Douglas, Heythrop College, London.
Stephen Gaukroger, University of Sydney
Susan James, Birkbeck College London
Denis Kambouchner, University of Paris-1
John Schuster, Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, University of Sydney
Galen Strawson, University of Texas at Austin
Theo Verbeek, University of Utrecht
Catherine Wilson, University of York
