Descartes and Technological Metaphor
“Legitimating the Machine: The Epistemological Foundations of Technological Metaphor in the Natural Philosophy of René Descartes”
Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and his Contemporaries.
Edited by Claus Zittel. Volume 11: Intersections - Yearbook for Early Modern Studies (Brill: Leiden and Boston: 2008).
I post here a draft version, uncorrected.
Just a though. If you have remaining interest in Descartes and Technology you may like to read, if you haven’t Descartes and the Hyperbolic Quest by Graham Burnett, which traces Descartes’ decade long obscession with making an automated lens-grinding machine:
http://books.google.com/books?id=oAYNAAAAIAAJ
kvond said this on May 31st, 2009 at 11:25 am