Descartes|Tom Sorell 9056372335

||boek: Descartes|vertaling: Willemien de Leeuw|Lemniscaat-Kopstukken Filosofie

||door: Tom Sorell

||taal: nl
||jaar: 2004
||druk: 3e druk
||pag.: 136p
||opm.: softcover|zo goed als nieuw

||isbn: 90-5637-233-5
||code: 1:000553

--- Over het boek (foto 1): Descartes ---

René Descartes (1596-1650) wordt beschouwd als de vader van de moderne wijsbegeerte. Hij is vooral bekend voor zijn gebruik van de methodische twijfel, die volgens hem uitmondt in de zekerheid van het Cogito, ergo sum (ik denk, dus ik ben) als uitgangspunt voor het bewijs van het bestaan van God en van de materiële wereld.

Voor Descartes was metafysica echter een onlosmakelijk onderdeel van zijn bredere wetenschappelijke onderzoekingen, die zich uitstrekten tot op het gebied van de fysica, wiskunde, psychologie en optica.

Tom Sorell laat in deze heldere inleiding duidelijk zien dat Descartes vooral een pleitbezorger en beoefenaar was van de nieuwe, mathematische benadering van de werkelijkheid en zijn metafysica ontwikkelde als grondslag voor de moderne wetenschap.

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Rene Descartes had a remarkably short working life, yet his contribution to philosophy and physics have endured to this day. He is perhaps best known for his statement, Cogito, ergo sum, the cornerstone of his metaphysics. Descartes did not intend the metaphysics to stand apart from his scientific work, which included important investigations into physics, mathematics, and optics. In this book, Sorell shows that Descartes was, above all, an advocate and practitioner of the new mathematical approach to physics, and that he developed his philosophies to support his discoveries in the sciences.

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Clear, Informative Introduction to Descartes [2007-08-17]

This is an enjoyable and informative introduction to Descartes, his work, and his philosophy. Some may hesitate to delve into Descartes work because of its complexity and denseness of thought, but this "very short introduction" comes to the rescue, orienting us to Descartes' major ideas, their developmental history, and the context in which he developed them. The book is greatly interesting to read, and even the discourses on some of Descartes' more conceptual thought are treated with exceptional clarity. Although the book focuses on the developmental history of Descartes' investigation into the sciences (particularly in optics), the book also discusses his contributions to mathematical geometry, as well as some of his thoughts on faith and reason. If you are looking for an introduction to Descartes, it is hard to go wrong with this well-written and enjoyable pocket volume.

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The Ghost of Descartes is still with us [2006-09-25]

Descartes is one of the most influential Western philosophers, and this book is a useful first introduction to his life and ideas. The strength of the book is in positioning Descartes' writing primarily within the political and ideological currents of his time, and showing how exactly he's been forced to edit and finesse his writings in order to please the censorship and his critics. This helps explain why some of his works were not as straightforwardly written as one might have liked. The other reason has probably to do with the sheer ambition of Descartes' chief enterprise, to discover one sure method of arriving at explanations and solutions of the most pressing scientific and philosophical problems of the time. The enormity of this scope meant that some of these methods would necessarily be to vague to be of any practical use in mathematics or physics, and within a generation after Descartes' death Newtonian gravitation completely prevailed. However, in the realm of philosophy, Descarts' thought managed to be of interest until the present day. This book is very well written, and if you are interested in finding out more about Descartes, it would be a worthwhile first read.

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Not the Descartes of the philosophy text-book [2005-03-14]

This work does not approach Descartes in the usual way: i.e. by showing his place in the Western philosophical tradition, and especially showing how the modern age in Thought began with his cogito. It tries instead to give a more complete picture of Descartes interests and activities, with focus on his mathematical physics, and scientific work. There is also a brief telling of the life of Descartes who Sorrell believes was less isolated than he is usually made out to be. There is one painful detail. Descartes said that the greatest sorrow of his life was the loss when she was only five of his out-of- wedlock daughter. Descartes religious faith is also discussed. The suggestion however is that of all his work it is the famous 'I think therefore I am' which is most responsible for his continuing fame.

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Useful for novices and advanced students alike [2003-02-13]

Those who have not yet studied Descartes will enjoy this clearly written introduction to Descartes' life and thought. However, even seasoned philosophy students are also liable to find much of interest in Sorell's DESCARTES. For most philosophy students, Descartes is more or less synonymous with the DISCOURSE ON METHOD and the MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY, and Descartes' scientific and mathematical work tend to be regarded as almost irrelevant and disconnected afterthoughts. The brilliance of Sorell's book is to show how Descartes' work constitutes an integrated whole, where the DISCOURSE and the MEDITATIONS are more a preliminary step in Descartes' project than the endpoint of his philosophy that we often take it to be.

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--- Over (foto 2): Tom Sorell ---

Tom Sorell studeerde achtereenvolgens aan de McGill Universiteit en aan de universiteit van Oxford waar hij ook promoveerde. Hij doceerde aan de Balliol, St. Anne's en Queen's colleges in Oxford tot hij in 1979 bij de Open Universiteit ging werken. In 1992 ging hij werken bij de faculteit Filosofie van de Universiteit in Essex. Daarnaast was hij een jaar (1996-97) Fellow in de Ethica aan de Harvard universiteit.

Tom Sorell is mededirecteur van het Human Rights Centre. Zijn onderzoeksgebieden beslaan de relatie tussen morele theorie en mensenrechten, het falen van de toepassing van morele theorie, en wetenschapsfilosofie.

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Tom Sorell (born 24 October 1951) is a Canadian philosopher based in the UK. His interests range from the theory of knowledge and the philosophy of science to early modern philosophy, ethics (including applied ethics) and political philosophy. He is noted for his writings on Hobbes, scientism and applied ethics. Since 2008, he has worked in ethics and technology both as a researcher and as a consultant. He is the author of Hobbes (1986); Descartes (1987); Moral Theory and Capital Punishment (1987); Scientism (1992); Business Ethics (with John Hendry) (1994); Moral Theory and Anomaly (1999); Descartes Reinvented (2005); and Emergencies and Politics (2013).

Early life and education

Sorell was born in Mexico City in 1951 to European migrants. The family moved to Vancouver, Canada in 1956 and to Montreal in 1961. He attended the High School of Montreal, entered McGill University in 1968, and graduated in 1972, when he won the Prince of Wales Gold Medal in philosophy. In 1973, he started the BPhil in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford. He was taught by John McDowell, Gareth Evans, John Mackie, and Simon Blackburn. Supervised by B.F. McGuinness, he wrote a thesis on the deep continuity between Wittgenstein's Tractatus and his very late work, On Certainty. After taking the BPhil, Sorell wrote a thesis under the supervision of David Pears expounding and defending a version of the causal theory of knowledge. He was awarded the Oxford DPhil in 1978.

Teaching career

Sorell held temporary lectureships at St. Anne's, Balliol, and Queen's Colleges in Oxford in the mid-1970s before joining the philosophy department at the Open University in 1979, working alongside Rosalind Hursthouse and Janet Radcliffe Richards. In 1992, he was appointed Reader in Philosophy at Essex University, and was promoted to Professor in 1996. From 2003-5 he acted as Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre at Essex. He moved to Birmingham University in 2006 as John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics. In 2013 he became Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Warwick University, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group. He was a Faculty Fellow in the Ethics and the Professions program at Harvard in 1996-7, and a visiting professor in philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013.

Work

Sorell has published extensively in early modern philosophy, especially on Hobbes and Descartes, and has co-edited article collections on history of philosophy and analytic philosophy, on the relationship of canonical to non-canonical figures in early modern philosophy, and on the relationship between ancient and modern philosophers. He claims that history of philosophy and problem-solving analytic philosophy can be highly complementary. His Descartes Reinvented (2005) and Emergencies and Politics: A Sober Hobbesian Approach (2013) are applications of his views on how to harmonise the disciplines of problem-solving analytic philosophy and history of philosophy. His book Scientism: Philosophy and the Infatuation with Science (1991) articulates a pro-science position while criticising what Sorell sees as a tendency, especially in American philosophy, to overvalue science and overdo naturalism. In ethics, Sorell defends theory against the claims of anti-theorists, including Bernard Williams. In applied ethics he has published on capital punishment, technology, including robotics and AI, surveillance, privacy, counter-terrorism, organised crime, emergency ethics including pandemic ethics, microfinance, and responsibility in the 2007-8 financial crisis. His latest work considers the various harms involved in several kinds of online crime and retaliation against online crime. His work in applied ethics is regularly pursued with practitioners: police, members of the intelligence services, technology developers, business people, medics, and policy makers.

Major publications

• with Dempsey, J and Cowton, C. eds. Business Ethics After the Financial Crisis (Routledge, 2019)
• with K. Kadjimatheou, J. Guelke eds. Security Ethics (Routledge, 2016)
• with L Cabera, eds. Microfinance, Rights and Global Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
• Emergencies and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
• with Jill Kraye and John Rogers, eds. Scientia in Early Modern Philosophy (Springer, 2009).
• with Jill Kraye and John Rogers, eds. Insiders and Outsiders in Early Modern Philosophy (Routledge, 2009).
• Descartes Reinvented (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
• with John Rogers, eds. Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2005).
• with L. Foisneau and J-C Merle, eds. Leviathan Between the Wars: Hobbes's Impact on Early Twentieth Century Political Philosophy (Peter Lang, 2005).
• with L. Foisneau, eds. Leviathan After 350 Years (Oxford University Press, 2004).
• With John Rogers, eds. Hobbes and History (Routledge, 2000).
• ed. Descartes. Dartmouth Readings in the History of Philosophy (Ashgate, 1999).
• Moral Theory and Anomaly. Aristotelian Society Monograph Series (Blackwell, 1999).
• ed. Health Care, Ethics, and Insurance (Routledge, 1998).
• with R. Ariew, J. Cottingham, eds. and trans. Descartes: Background Source Materials (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
• ed. The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes, 3rd edn (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
• ed. The Rise of Modern Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1993).
• Descartes (Oxford University Press, 1987) [repr. in the Oxford Past Masters and Very Short Introductions series, and widely translated].

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Tom Sorell is Professor of Politics and Philosophy and Head of the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group in PAIS. He was an RCUK Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellow (2013-2016). He was Tang Chun-I Visiting Professor in Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2013. Previously, he was John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham. Before that he was Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. In 1996-7 he was Fellow in Ethics at Harvard.

He has published extensively in moral and political philosophy, including four books, and dozens of journal articles. His most recent published work takes up (i) moral and political issues raised by emergencies, including terrorist emergencies; (ii) microfinance and human rights; (iii) the defensibility of preventive justice; ethics and artificial intelligence; (iv) digilantism; and (v) bulk collection.

He has worked on many European and RCUK funded research projects. He has also served as a consultant on security-sensitive material in UK universities and on the committee advising the AHRC on the Internet of Things. He is vice-chair of the Home Office Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group and is on the data ethics committee of the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner. In 2020 he was appointed Chair of the West Midlands Police General Ethics Committee.

Supervision

Hobbes; contemporary liberal political philosophy; the scope of moral theory; emergency and its theory; ethics and security: counter-terrorism; ethics of surveillance; the value of privacy; financial justice: responsibilities for and in the financial crisis; ethics of financial exclusion and microfinance; assistive technology: ethics of telecare; ethics of care robotics; cyber ethics; ethics and artificial intelligence; ethics and the internet of things, including connected vehicles.

Multimedia

• Richard Marshall interviews Tom for 3:16 magazine: https--316am.site123.me/articles/innocent-descartes-and-sober-hobbes?c=end-times-series

• Tom Sorell talking about Preventive Justice and Serious Crime

• https--www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/07/would-a-bdsm-sex-robot-violate-asimovs-first-law-of-robotics/
• Tom Sorell talking about 'Proportionality'
• Tom Sorell talking about 'Digilantism'
• Tom Sorell joined a panel to discuss 'Moral Animals and Our Place in the Universe: Are good and evil unique to humans?'
• Tom Sorell joined the panel to discuss 'Of Lies and Necessity: Is honesty a fantasy?'
• Tom Sorell was interviewed by Emmett Cole for Robotic Business Review discussing Care Robotics.
• Tom Sorell discusses Surveillance in this Philosophy Bites podcast.
• In Emergencies and Politics: A Sober Hobbesian Approach (Cambridge UP, 2013), Tom Sorell argues that emergencies can justify types of action that would normally be regarded as wrong.
• Tom Sorell wrote an article for The Conversation explaining how Asimov's laws of robotics aren't the moral guidelines they appear to be
• Tom Sorell talks to ARTE about policing paedophiles in the UK (video in French)
• Tom Sorell speaking to the China Britain AI forum on care robotics.

Edited volumes

• with James Dempsey, Moral Responsibility and the Financial Crisis. Midwest Studies in Philosophy (2018)
• with Chris Cowton and James Dempsey, Business Ethics After the Financial Crisis (Routledge, 2019)
• with Katerina Hadjimatheou and John Guelke (2017) 'Security Ethics: The Library of Essays on Legal Ethics and the Enforcement of Law', Routledge
• with Luis Cabrera (2015) 'Microfinance, Rights and Global Justice', Cambridge University Press

Recent contributions to books

• T. Sorell, 'Bulk Collection, Intrusion and Domination' in Andrew I Cohen ed. Essays in Philosophy and Policy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018).
• Hobbes on Obedience to God and Man: ch 15'in O Hoffe ed. Hobbes: De cive (de Gruyter 2018) pp. 161-174.
• Emergencies in Sober Hobbesianism' in P. Auriel, O. Beaud, C. Wellman, The Rule of Crisis: Terrorism, Emergency Legislation and the Rule of Law (Springer, 2018), pp.37-60.
• 'Poverty, Exclusion, and the Design of Microfinance Institutions' in J van der Hoeven, S. Miller and T Pogge eds. Designing In Ethics (Cambridge U P, 2018), pp. 119-140.
• 'Hobbes on Serious Crime' in S. Courtland ed. Hobbesian Applied Ethics and Public Policy' (Routledge, 2017) pp. 214-228.
• with John Guelke (2016 - online; volume in press) 'Liberal Democratic Regulation and Technological Advance' in R. Brownsword, E. Scotford, and K. Yeung, eds. 'The Oxford Handbook of the Law and Regulation of Technology', Oxford Universtiy Press
• 'Hobbes, Public Safety and Political Economy' in R. Prokhovnik and G Slomp,eds. International Political Theory After Hobbes (London: Macmillan, 2011) pp. 42-55.
• 'Spinoza's Unstable Politics of Freedom' in. C. Hueneman, ed. Interpreting Spinoza: Critical Essays (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008) pp. 147-165.
• 'Thomas Hobbes' in Encyclopaedia Britannica 2008
• 'Public Health, Parental Choice and Expert Knowledge: the strange case of the MMR vaccine' in M Vereweij and A Dawsion, eds., Ethics, Prevention, and Public Health (Oxford, 2007), pp. 95-110.

Selected peer-reviewed papers

• T. Sorell and Monica Whitty, 'Online Romance Scams and Victimhood' Security Journal (2019)
• Tom Sorell, Steve Taylor, Brian Pickering, Michael Boniface et al. 'Responsible AI - Key Themes, Concerns & Recommendations for European Research and Innovation-- Summary of Consultation with Multidisciplinary Experts' (2018) https--www.ngi.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2018/07/Responsible-AI-Consultation-Public-Recommendations-V1.0.pdf
• (2016) 'The scope of serious crime and preventive justice', Criminal Justice Ethics
• (2016) 'Online grooming and preventive justice', Criminal Law and Philosophy
• with John Guelke (2016 - in press) 'Violations of privacy and law: the case of stalking', Law, Ethics and Philosophy
• (2015) 'Human rights and hactivism: the case of Wikileaks and anonymous', Journal of Human Rights Practice
• (2015) 'The dogma of the priority of private morality', American Philosophical Quarterly

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