Descartes on Forms and Mechanisms

By Helen Hattab

Book Overview

The modern view of causation can be traced back to the mechanistic science of Descartes, whose rejection of Aristotelian physics, with its concept of substantial forms, in favor of mechanical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107405157
• ISBN13: 9781107405158
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"