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2001
| De Chene (philosophy, Emory U.) discusses the context in which Descartes' ideas about the nature of biology took shape, addressing how the themes, arguments, and vocabulary of Descartes' mechanistic biology relate to the writings of 17th century authors, from late Aristotelian theories of the soul to medical literature and treatises on machines. He outlines Descartes' theories of vital operations, his use of the machine model in physiology, how he classified different kinds of unity of the body,....[more] |
2003
| This is a dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian philosophy, primarily covering philosophy in the 17th century, with a chronology and biography of Descartes's life and times and a bibliography of primary and secondary works related to Descartes and to Cartesians. |
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