This book challenges the presupposition among professional philosophers that René Descartes is the Father of Modern Philosophy. It demonstrates by intensive te

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Through extensive textual analysis, this book concludes that the prevailing opinion about the nature of modern and contemporary philosophy is wrong. It maintain

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This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural scienc