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Book SynopsisThe volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes’s philosophy in the early modern age. Its twenty chapters explore the clash between Descartes’s “new” philosophy and the established pedagogical practices and institutional concerns, as well as the various strategies employed by Descartes’s supporters in order to communicate his ideas to their students. The volume considers a vast array of topics, sources, and institutions, across the borders of countries and confessions, both within and without the university setting (public conferences, private tutorials, distance learning by letter) and enables us thereby to reconsider from a fresh perspective the history of early modern philosophy and education.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction Davide Cellamare and Mattia Mantovani 1 Descartes and the Classroom Theo Verbeek 2 The Philosophical Fulcrum of Seventeenth-Century Leiden: Pedagogical Innovation and Philosophical Novelty in Adriaan Heereboord Howard Hotson 3 Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in Leiden: Adriaan Heereboord (1613–1661) and Johannes De Raey (1622–1702) Antonella Del Prete 4 Reassessing Johannes De Raey’s Aristotelian-Cartesian Synthesis: The Copenhagen Manuscript Annotata in Principia philosophica (1658) Domenico Collacciani 5 “Let Descartes Speak Dutch”: Spinoza’s Circle Teaching Cartesianism Henri Krop 6 Patronage as a Means to End a University Controversy: The Conclusion of Two Cartesian Disputes at Frankfurt an der Oder (1656 and 1660) Pietro Daniel Omodeo 7 Cartesian and Anti-Cartesian Disputations and Corollaries at Utrecht University, 1650–1670 Erik-Jan Bos 8 Between Descartes and Boyle: Burchard de Volder’s Experimental Lectures at Leiden, 1676–1678 Andrea Strazzoni 9 Medicine and the Mind in the Teaching of Theodoor Craanen (1633–1688) Davide Cellamare 10 Cartesius Triumphatus: Gerard de Vries and Opposing Descartes at the University of Utrecht Daniel Garber 11 Debating Cartesian Philosophy on Both Sides of the Channel: Johannes Schuler’s (1619–1674) Plea for libertas philosophandi Igor Agostini 12 Descartes by Letter—Teaching Cartesianism in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Cambridge: Henry More, Thomas Clarke and Anne Conway Sarah Hutton 13 Teaching Descartes’s Ethics in London and Cambridge Roger Ariew 14 Teaching Magnetism in a Cartesian World, 1650–1700 Christoph Sander 15 The Anatomy of a Condemnation: Descartes’s Theory of Perception and the Louvain Affair, 1637–1671 Mattia Mantovani 16 Descartes’s Theory of Tides in the Louvain Classroom, 1670–1760 Carla Rita Palmerino 17 Traces of the Port-Royal Logic in the Louvain Logic Curricula Steven Coesemans 18 Cartesianism and the Education of Women Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin 19 Rohault’s Private Lessons on Cosmology Mihnea Dobre 20 French Cartesianisms in the 1690s: The Textbooks of Regis and Pourchot Tad M. Schmaltz Bibliography Index
