Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy

This is the first comprehensive examination of Descartes' complete philosophical system.

Educated at University of London (BA 1974) and University of Cambridge (PhD 1977). Currently Professor of History of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Sydney. Previous Books include: Explanatory Structures (Harvester, 1978), ed, Descartes: Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics (Harvester, 1980), Cartesian Logic (Oxford University Press, 1989), Descartes, An Intellectual Biography (Oxford University Press, 1995), Descartes: The World and Other Writings (Cambridge University Press, 1998), ed., The Soft Underbelly of Reason (Routledge, 1998), ed, with J. Schuster and J. Sutton, Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy (Routledge, 2000), Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early Modern Philosophy (Oxford University Press 2001).