Descartes in the Classroom

Davide Cellamare, Ph.D. (2015), Radboud University Nijmegen, is FWO Senior-Postdoc at KU Leuven. He has published numerous articles on late medieval and early modern psychology (with a special focus on the institutional and confessional contexts), as well as on Cartesianism. Mattia Mantovani, Ph.D. (2018), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is FWO Junior-Postdoc at KU Leuven. He has published numerous articles on medieval and early modern epistemology and perception theory – with a special focus on Descartes – and on the role of diagrams in science.

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Introduction

 Davide Cellamare and Mattia Mantovani



1 Descartes and the Classroom

 Theo Verbeek



2 The Philosophical Fulcrum of Seventeenth-Century Leiden: Pedagogical Innovation and Philosophical Novelty in Adriaan Heereboord

 Howard Hotson



3 Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in Leiden: Adriaan Heereboord (1613–1661) and Johannes De Raey (1622–1702)

 Antonella Del Prete



4 Reassessing Johannes De Raey’s Aristotelian-Cartesian Synthesis: The Copenhagen Manuscript Annotata in Principia philosophica (1658)

 Domenico Collacciani



5 “Let Descartes Speak Dutch”: Spinoza’s Circle Teaching Cartesianism

 Henri Krop



6 Patronage as a Means to End a University Controversy: The Conclusion of Two Cartesian Disputes at Frankfurt an der Oder (1656 and 1660)

 Pietro Daniel Omodeo



7 Cartesian and Anti-Cartesian Disputations and Corollaries at Utrecht University, 1650–1670

 Erik-Jan Bos



8 Between Descartes and Boyle: Burchard de Volder’s Experimental Lectures at Leiden, 1676–1678

 Andrea Strazzoni



9 Medicine and the Mind in the Teaching of Theodoor Craanen (1633–1688)

 Davide Cellamare



10 Cartesius Triumphatus: Gerard de Vries and Opposing Descartes at the University of Utrecht

 Daniel Garber



11 Debating Cartesian Philosophy on Both Sides of the Channel: Johannes Schuler’s (1619–1674) Plea for libertas philosophandi

 Igor Agostini



12 Descartes by Letter—Teaching Cartesianism in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Cambridge: Henry More, Thomas Clarke and Anne Conway

 Sarah Hutton



13 Teaching Descartes’s Ethics in London and Cambridge

 Roger Ariew



14 Teaching Magnetism in a Cartesian World, 1650–1700

 Christoph Sander



15 The Anatomy of a Condemnation: Descartes’s Theory of Perception and the Louvain Affair, 1637–1671

 Mattia Mantovani



16 Descartes’s Theory of Tides in the Louvain Classroom, 1670–1760

 Carla Rita Palmerino



17 Traces of the Port-Royal Logic in the Louvain Logic Curricula

 Steven Coesemans



18 Cartesianism and the Education of Women

 Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin



19 Rohault’s Private Lessons on Cosmology

 Mihnea Dobre



20 French Cartesianisms in the 1690s: The Textbooks of Regis and Pourchot

 Tad M. Schmaltz



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