Title: Late-scholastic and Cartesian<i>conatus</i>
Abstract:Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsThis paper could not have been written without the support of the Università degli Studi di Torino and the hospitality of the M...Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsThis paper could not have been written without the support of the Università degli Studi di Torino and the hospitality of the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte of Berlin: my first thanks goes to these institutions. I also desire to thank my supervisor, Enrico Pasini, Catherine Wilson, Massimo Mori, and Pietro D. Omodeo for reading and commenting on previous drafts of this paper. At the Institute I also had the opportunity to discuss this or closely related issues with Peter McLaughlin, Vincenzo De Risi, and Adam Chalmers: all of them deserve my thanks. Very useful comments also came from presenting this paper at the 2013 edition of the Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. In particular, I desire to thank Dan Garber, Vlad Alexandrescu, Ofer Gal, Sophie Roux, Ohad Nachtomy, Sorana Corneanu, Andrea Sangiacomo, and Ian Lawson for the useful advices. Thanks also to the two anonymous readers for the useful comments. A special thanks goes to Balint Kekedi for the long discussion on the Cartesian conatus we had on a May morning in 2013 in Budapest (you were actually right!) Thanks also to Cameron Brown Rigo for his help in the editing of the text.Read More