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.

• List of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsIntroductionDavide Cellamare and Mattia Mantovani1 Descartes and the ClassroomTheo Verbeek2 The Philosophical Fulcrum of Seventeenth-Century Leiden: Pedagogical Innovation and Philosophical Novelty in Adriaan HeereboordHoward Hotson3 Teaching Cartesian Philosophy in Leiden: Adriaan Heereboord (1613–1661) and Johannes De Raey (1622–1702)Antonella Del Prete4 Reassessing Johannes De Raey’s Aristotelian-Cartesian Synthesis: The Copenhagen Manuscript Annotata in Principia philosophica (1658)Domenico Collacciani5 “Let Descartes Speak Dutch”: Spinoza’s Circle Teaching CartesianismHenri Krop6 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 Omodeo7 Cartesian and Anti-Cartesian Disputations and Corollaries at Utrecht University, 1650–1670Erik-Jan Bos8 Between Descartes and Boyle: Burchard de Volder’s Experimental Lectures at Leiden, 1676–1678Andrea Strazzoni9 Medicine and the Mind in the Teaching of Theodoor Craanen (1633–1688)Davide Cellamare10 Cartesius Triumphatus: Gerard de Vries and Opposing Descartes at the University of UtrechtDaniel Garber11 Debating Cartesian Philosophy on Both Sides of the Channel: Johannes Schuler’s (1619–1674) Plea for libertas philosophandiIgor Agostini12 Descartes by Letter—Teaching Cartesianism in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Cambridge: Henry More, Thomas Clarke and Anne ConwaySarah Hutton13 Teaching Descartes’s Ethics in London and CambridgeRoger Ariew14 Teaching Magnetism in a Cartesian World, 1650–1700Christoph Sander15 The Anatomy of a Condemnation: Descartes’s Theory of Perception and the Louvain Affair, 1637–1671Mattia Mantovani16 Descartes’s Theory of Tides in the Louvain Classroom, 1670–1760Carla Rita Palmerino17 Traces of the Port-Royal Logic in the Louvain Logic CurriculaSteven Coesemans18 Cartesianism and the Education of WomenMarie-Frédérique Pellegrin19 Rohault’s Private Lessons on CosmologyMihnea Dobre20 French Cartesianisms in the 1690s: The Textbooks of Regis and PourchotTad M. SchmaltzBibliographyIndex