Branching Off. The Early Moderns in Quest for the Unity of Knowledge

CONTENTS

Vlad Alexandrescu: Foreword

I. Faces of knowledge 

Nathan Smith: Mathesis, Mathematics and Method in Descartes’s Regulae: A Reprise 
Elodie Cassan: Théorie de la science et physique chez Descartes 
Vlad Alexandrescu: The double question of the individuation of physical bodies in Descartes
Roger Ariew: Descartes and Leibniz on the Principle of Individuation 
Lucian Petrescu: Descartes and the Internal Senses. On memory and remembrance 
Stephen Gaukroger: The unity of knowledge: natural philosophical foundations of Spinoza’s politico-theology 
Daniel Garber: Leibniz, Theology and the Mechanical Philosophy 
Sorana Corneanu: Locke on the Study of Nature 

II. Mapping Knowledge and Traditions 

Massimiliano Savini: La Panacea Philosophica de Johann Heinrich Alsted: un projet architectonique d’accès au savoir
Dana Jalobeanu: The fascination of Solomon’s House in seventeenth century England: Baconianism revisited
Giulia Belgioioso: «Toute hyperbole tend là, de nous amener à la vérité par l’excès de la vérité, c’est-à-dire par la mensonge»: les parcours hyperboliques qui amènent à la vérité de Balzac à Descartes 
Igor Agostini: Caterus on God as “ens a se” 
Justin E.H. Smith: Descartes and Henry More on living bodies 
Mihnea Dobre: The Scientific Journals of the Seventeenth-Century: Cartesianism in Journal des Sçavans and Philosophical Transactions, 1665-1670 
Eric Lewis: Sir Kenelm Digby and the Weapon Salve in Seventeenth Century England 
Brandon Look: Leibniz and Locke on Real and Nominal Essences