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Dennis DesChene

Life's Form: Late Aristotelian Conceptions of the Soul

Cornell University Press
Dennis Des Chene explores how Western philosophers understood life and the soul in the early modern period-before Descartes radically changed how the universe was conceived. Life's Form is... more

Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes

Cornell University Press
Although the basis of modern biology is Cartesian, Descartes's theories of biology have been more often ridiculed than studied. Yet, Dennis Des Chene demonstrates, the themes, arguments,... more

Julia Driver

Ethics: the Fundamentals

Wiley-Blackwell
Ethics: The Fundamentals explores core ideas and arguments in moral theory by introducing students to different philosophical approaches to ethics, including virtue ethics, Kantian... more

Uneasy Virtue

Cambridge University Press
Driver challenges Aristotle's classical theory of virtue, arguing that it fails to take into account virtues that do seem to involve ignorance or epistemic defect. Modesty, for example, is... more
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