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The earlier lack of interest in L’Homme and how this has changed over the last few decades, with attention to the physiological ingredients in Cartesian epistemology and account of the passions. The translations of Hall and Gaukroger are compared.
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See, for example, Theo Verbeek, ‘The Invention of Nature: Regius and Descartes’, in S. Gaukroger, J. Schuster, and J. Sutton, eds., Descartes’ Natural Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2000),149–67.
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Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert, Encyclopédie (2nd. edn., 40 vols., Geneva, 1777–9), i. vii. Contemporary translation from The Plan of the French Encyclopedia (London, 1752), 5–6.
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Plan, 6; Encyclopédie, i. vii.
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Plan, 10–11; Encyclopédie, i. ix.
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Plan, 23; Encyclopédie, i. xv.
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See, for example, S. Gaukroger, ‘Descartes’ Theory of Perceptual Cognition and the Question of Moral Sensibility’, in J. Cottingham and P. Hacker, eds., Mind, Method, and Morality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2100), 230–51.
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AT v. 165.
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Gaukroger, S. (2016). L’Homme in English. In: Antoine-Mahut, D., Gaukroger, S. (eds) Descartes’ Treatise on Man and its Reception. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol 43. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46989-8_4
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