From naturalism to mechanism: Ambiguities and contradictions in Descartes' mechanistic physiology.
The thesis provides an analysis of the metaphysical and epistemological shift from naturalism to mechanism in the seventeenth century, specifically in relation to the human body, and the evolution of the notion of the body-machine in Cartesian philosophy. The thesis starts from the position that Des...
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University of Ottawa (Canada)
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/9004 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-7594 |