On Descartes’ Passive Thought is the culmination of a life-long reflection on the philosophy of Descartes by one of the most important living French philosoph

Does Descartes belong to metaphysics? What do we mean when we say "metaphysics"? These questions form the point of departure for Jean-Luc Marion's groundbreakin

This book systematically traces the development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity.

The reader who approaches Descartes's first work ?Cartesianly,? that is, epistemologically, is faced with an insurmountable difficulty: the Regulae ad Direction

Descartes's concept of the mind, as distinct from the body with which it forms a union, set the agenda for much of Western philosophy's subsequent reflection on