Descartes and the Ingenium

Raphaële Garrod, Ph.D. Cantab (2010), is Associate Professor of Early Modern French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. She authored Cosmographical Novelties in French Renaissance Prose: Dialectic and Discovery (2016), and co-authored Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (2019).Alexander Marr is Reader in the History of Early Modern Art at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. His recent books include Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe (2019) and Rubens’s Spirit: From Ingenuity to Genius (forthcoming from Reaktion Books, 2021).

• AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations and DiagramsAbbreviations and Note on the TextNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Descartes Re-imagined: Ingenuity before and beyond DualismRaphaële GarrodPart 1: Rethinking the Ingenium in the Cartesian Corpus. Method, Mathematics, Medicine1 Methodical Invention: The Cartesian Ingenium at WorkDenis Kambouchner2 Descartes and Logic: Perfecting the IngeniumRoger Ariew3 Enumeratio in Descartes’s Regulae ad directionem ingenii and BeyondTheo Verbeek4 Ingenium, Phantasia and Mathematics in Descartes’s Regulae ad directionem ingeniiDavid Rabouin5 The Post-Regulae Direction of Ingenium in Descartes: Toward a Pragmatic Psychological AnthropologyDenis L. Sepper6 Augustinian Souls and Epicurean Bodies? Descartes’s Corporeal Mind in MotionHarold J. CookPart 2: The Cartesian Ingenium in Context: Predecessors, Contemporaries, Successors7 Ingenium between Descartes and the ScholasticsIgor Agostini8 Methods of Ingenuity: The Renaissance Tradition behind Descartes’s RegulaeRichard J. Oosterhoff9 La Politesse de L’esprit: Cartesian Pedagogy and the Ethics of Scholarly ExchangesRaphaële Garrod10 Postface: The Face of Ingenium: Simon Vouet’s Portrait of DescartesAlexander MarrBibliographyIndex of Names