by René Descartes, Elizabeth Anscombe, Peter Thomas Geach · London: Nelson 1972. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780177120374
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«Philosophical Writings» is the selection of philosophical writings by René Descartes, edited by Elizabeth Anscombe and Peter Thomas Geach, in paperback.
It brings together a selection of central texts by Descartes: the Discourse on Method, the Meditations on First Philosophy, the Replies to the Sixth Objections, The Passions of the Soul, and extracts from The Search for Truth, with letters. The introduction is by Alexandre Koyré and the translation by Elizabeth Anscombe and Peter Thomas Geach.
Nelson's University Paperbacks and The Open University Press published this English-language edition of 303 pages in 1972.
For students and readers of philosophy; the cover identifies it as an Open University course book.
René Descartes was a French philosopher, scientist, logician, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science during the Renaissance era. Mathematics was paramount to his method of inquiry, and he connected the previously separate fields of geometry and algebra into analytic geometry.
