Descartes in the Classroom : : Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in the Early Modern Age / / Davide Cellamare and Mattia Mantovani.

• Superior document: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science ; 35
• VerfasserIn: Cellamare, Davide,; Mantovani, Mattia,
• TeilnehmendeR: Mantovani, Mattia,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science ; 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (585 pages)

The volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes’ philosophy in the early modern age, across the borders of countries, and confessions, both within and without the university setting – public conferences, private tutorials, distance learning by letter.

The volume offers the first large-scale study of the teaching of Descartes’ philosophy in the early modern age. Its twenty chapters explore the clash between Descartes’ “new” philosophy and the established pedagogical practices and institutional concerns, as well as the various strategies employed by Descartes’ 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 Contents

List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 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. Can Philosophical Knowledge be Taught? The Copenhagen Manuscript Annotata in Principia (1658) by Johannes de Raey / 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 Boyle and Descartes: Burchard de Volder's Experimental Lectures at Leiden, 1676-1678 / Andrea Strazzoni -- 9. Medicine and the Mind in the Teaching of Theodoor Craanen (1621-1690) / 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' 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' Theory of Perception and the Louvain Affair, 1637-1671 / Mattia Mantovani -- 16. Descartes' Theory of Tides in the Louvain Classroom / Carla Rita Palmerino -- 17. Traces of the Logique de Port-Royal in the Louvain Logic Curricula / Steven Coesemans -- 18. Cartesianism and Women's Education / Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin -- 19. Rohault's Private Lessons on Cosmology / Mihnea Dobre -- 20. 1690s French Cartesianisms: The Textbooks of Regis and Pourchot / Tad Schmaltz -- Index.