Nature, Artifice, and Discovery in Descartes’ Mechanical Philosophy

It is often assumed that in the collapse of the Aristotelian distinction between art and nature that results from the rise of mechanical philosophies in the early modern period, the collapse falls on the side of art. That is, all of the diversity among natures that was explained previously as differ...

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Main Author: Deborah Jean Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-09-01
Series:Philosophies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/8/5/85