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  1. The indefinite in the Descartes-More correspondence.Tad M. Schmaltz - 2021 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 29 (3):453-471.
    In this article, I consider Descartes’ enigmatic claim that we must assert that the material world is indefinite rather than infinite. The focus here is on the discussion of this claim in Descartes’ late correspondence with More. One puzzle that emerges from this correspondence is that Descartes insists to More that we are not in a position to deny the indefinite universe has limits, while at the same time indicating that we conceive a contradiction in the notion that the universe (...)
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  • Henry more.John Henry - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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  • Anne Conway og materiens åndsliv.Hege Dypedokk Johnsen - 2018 - Norsk Filosofisk Tidsskrift 53 (2-3):92-104.
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  • Descartes’s Indefinitely Extended Universe.Jasper Reid - 2019 - Dialogue 58 (2):341-369.
    Descartes croyait que le monde étendu ne se terminait pas par une borne, mais pourquoi? Après avoir expliqué la position de Descartes au §1, en suggérant que sa conception de l’étendue indéfinie de l’univers devrait être entendue comme actuelle, mais syncatégorématique, nous nous penchons sur son argument dans le §2 : toute postulation d’une surface extérieure au monde sera autodestructrice, parce que la simple contemplation d’une telle borne nous conduira à reconnaître l’existence d’une étendue allant au-delà. Au §3, nous identifions (...)
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  • Descartes and More on the infinity of the world.Igor Agostini - 2017 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (5):878-896.
    In this paper, I address the controversy between Henry More and René Descartes on the indefinite extension of the world. I provide a new reading of Descartes’ famous final answer of 15 April 1649. I read the entire debate in the terms of a disagreement concerning the epistemological status of the necessity of our judgement about the extension of the universe. Accordingly, the disagreement on the infinity of the world constitutes a case of a more general disagreement on the nature (...)
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