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The Dating of Rule IV-B in Descartes's "Regulae ad directionem ingenii"

Frederick P. Van De Pitte

Journal of the History of Philosophy 29 (3):375 (1991)

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Mind and Sign: Method and the Interpretation of Mathematics in Descartes’s Early Work.Amy M. Schmitter - 2000 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 30 (3):371-411.details Method may be second only to substance-dualism as the best-known among Descartes's enthusiasms. But knowing that Descartes wants to promote good method is one thing; knowing what exactly he wants to promote is another. Two views seem fairly widespread. The first rests on the claim that Descartes endorses a purely procedural picture of reason, so that right reasoning is a matter of proprieties of operation, rather than respect for its objects. On this view, a method for regulating our reason would (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
La genèse de la méthode cartésienne : la mathesis universalis et la rédaction de la quatrième des Règles pour la direction de l’esprit.Érico Andrade M. de Oliveira - 2010 - Dialogue 49 (2):173-198.details ABSTRACT : On many accounts, Rule IV appears to be composed of two distinct texts, and this should be justified by the difference between the mathesis universalis and the Cartesian method. This article runs counter to the usual interpretation by showing that the discussion on mathematics in Rule IV has enabled the introduction of method constraining scientific research to operate on grounds of order and measurement. The mathesis universalis is not so much a science of higher mathematics as a universal (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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