TY - BOOK ID - 1678499 TI - Descartes reinvented PY - 2005 SN - 9780521851145 0521851149 9780511499289 0511130651 9780511130656 0511499280 1280422394 9781280422393 1107153913 9781107153912 0511182597 9780511182594 0511200277 9780511200274 0511300700 9780511300707 0511129122 9780511129124 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - History of philosophy KW - Descartes, René KW - Descartes, René, KW - Descartes, René, KW - Descartes, Renatus KW - Cartesius, Renatus KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Philosophy KW - Descartes, Rene, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1678499 AB - In this study, Tom Sorell seeks to rehabilitate views that are often instantly dismissed in analytic philosophy. His book serves as a reinterpretation of Cartesianism and responds directly to the dislike of Descartes in contemporary philosophy. To identify what is defensible in Cartesianism, Sorell starts with a picture of unreconstructed Cartesianism, which is characterized as realistic, antisceptical but respectful of scepticism, rationalist, centered on the first person, dualist, and dubious of the comprehensiveness of natural science and its supposed independence of metaphysics. Bridging the gap between history of philosophy and analytic philosophy, Sorell also shows for the first time how some contemporary analytic philosophy is deeply Cartesian, despite its outward hostility to Cartesianism. ER -