Andrea Strazzoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 4501900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Strazzoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Strazzoni |
| SIGNATURE | STRAZZONI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Studi Storici, Palazzo Nuovo Via Sant'Ottavio 20 10124 Torino, Italia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5552-2592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Descartes on Place and Motion
This paper offers a reconstruction of the interpretations of Descartes's ideas of place and motion by Dutch Cartesians (Henricus Regius, Johannes de Raey, Johannes Clauberg, and Christoph Wittich). It does so by focusing on the reading of Descartes's Principia philosophiae (1644) offered, in particular, by the dictated commentaries on it. It is shown how such commentaries bring to the light new potential Aristotelian‐Scholastic sources of Descart…
Neglected sources on Cartesianism
In this article I provide a historical and bibliographical exploration of the handwritten, dictated commentaries (dictata) of Johannes de Raey (1620/1622–1702) on the texts of René Descartes, shedding light on their structure, development, and on their relations with the academic commentaries of Johannes Clauberg. The study of these commentaries, which are extant as class notes, is important because they conveyed one of the first systematic teach…
Some unpublished fragments on Descartes’s life and works
In this article I present some unpublished fragments concerning René Descartes’s life and works, gathered from the academic commentaries of Johannes de Raey (1620/1622–1702) on his treatises. The fragments, of different degrees of reliability, are important as (1) they reveal how the image of Descartes was shaped among his first followers and biographers; (2) they offer insights on his now lost manuscripts, to which De Raey had access after his d…
Vide Spinozam, or Burchard de Volder between Cartesianism and Heterodoxy
In this article, I intervene in a long-standing debate over the alleged assumption and teaching of Spinozist ideas by the Dutch philosopher and scientist Burchard de Volder (1643–1709). I discuss De Volder’s position with respect to three main topics (necessitarianism, substance monism, and biblical interpretation), as well as the use his student Jacob Wittich made of De Volder’s ideas in Wittich’s highly controversial De natura Dei (1711). Event…
How Did Regius Become Regius? The Early Doctrinal Evolution of a Heterodox Cartesian
This article offers an assessment of Henricus Regius’s (1598-1679) pre-Cartesian sources and their role in his appropriation of Descartes’s ideas, via two main questions: 1) Who was Regius, doctrinally speaking, before his exposure to Cartesianism? And 2) how did he use Descartes’s theories before his quarrel with Descartes himself in the mid-1640s? These questions are addressed by means of a textual analysis that concerns his theory of matter. I…
Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science
How did the relations between philosophy and science evolve during the 17th and the 18th century? This book analyzes this issue by considering the history of Cartesianism in Dutch universities, as well as its legacy in the 18th century. It takes into account the ways in which the disciplines of logic and metaphysics became functional to the justification and reflection on the conceptual premises and the methods of natural philosophy, changing the…
L’Essai de logique de Mariotte
A Logic to End Controversies
This article provides an analysis of Johannes Clauberg’s intentions in writing his Logica vetus et nova (1654, 1658). Announced before his adherence to Cartesianism, his Logica was eventually developed in order to provide Car- tesian philosophy with a Scholastic form, embodying a complete methodol- ogy for the academic disciplines based on Descartes’ rules and a medicina men- tis against philosophical prejudices. However, this was not its only fu…
Neglected sources on Cartesianism
In this article I provide a historical and bibliographical exploration of the handwritten, dictated commentaries (dictata) of Johannes de Raey (1620/1622–1702) on the texts of René Descartes, shedding light on their structure, development, and on their relations with the academic commentaries of Johannes Clauberg. The study of these commentaries, which are extant as class notes, is important because they conveyed one of the first systematic teach…
Some unpublished fragments on Descartes’s life and works
In this article I present some unpublished fragments concerning René Descartes’s life and works, gathered from the academic commentaries of Johannes de Raey (1620/1622–1702) on his treatises. The fragments, of different degrees of reliability, are important as (1) they reveal how the image of Descartes was shaped among his first followers and biographers; (2) they offer insights on his now lost manuscripts, to which De Raey had access after his d…
How Did Regius Become Regius? The Early Doctrinal Evolution of a Heterodox Cartesian
This article offers an assessment of Henricus Regius’s (1598-1679) pre-Cartesian sources and their role in his appropriation of Descartes’s ideas, via two main questions: 1) Who was Regius, doctrinally speaking, before his exposure to Cartesianism? And 2) how did he use Descartes’s theories before his quarrel with Descartes himself in the mid-1640s? These questions are addressed by means of a textual analysis that concerns his theory of matter. I…
A Logic to End Controversies
This article provides an analysis of Johannes Clauberg’s intentions in writing his Logica vetus et nova (1654, 1658). Announced before his adherence to Cartesianism, his Logica was eventually developed in order to provide Car- tesian philosophy with a Scholastic form, embodying a complete methodol- ogy for the academic disciplines based on Descartes’ rules and a medicina men- tis against philosophical prejudices. However, this was not its only fu…
L’Essai de logique de Mariotte
How Did Regius Become Regius? The Early Doctrinal Evolution of a Heterodox Cartesian
This article offers an assessment of Henricus Regius’s (1598-1679) pre-Cartesian sources and their role in his appropriation of Descartes’s ideas, via two main questions: 1) Who was Regius, doctrinally speaking, before his exposure to Cartesianism? And 2) how did he use Descartes’s theories before his quarrel with Descartes himself in the mid-1640s? These questions are addressed by means of a textual analysis that concerns his theory of matter. I…
Dutch Cartesianism and the Birth of Philosophy of Science
How did the relations between philosophy and science evolve during the 17th and the 18th century? This book analyzes this issue by considering the history of Cartesianism in Dutch universities, as well as its legacy in the 18th century. It takes into account the ways in which the disciplines of logic and metaphysics became functional to the justification and reflection on the conceptual premises and the methods of natural philosophy, changing the…
Vide Spinozam, or Burchard de Volder between Cartesianism and Heterodoxy
In this article, I intervene in a long-standing debate over the alleged assumption and teaching of Spinozist ideas by the Dutch philosopher and scientist Burchard de Volder (1643–1709). I discuss De Volder’s position with respect to three main topics (necessitarianism, substance monism, and biblical interpretation), as well as the use his student Jacob Wittich made of De Volder’s ideas in Wittich’s highly controversial De natura Dei (1711). Event…
Neglected sources on Cartesianism
In this article I provide a historical and bibliographical exploration of the handwritten, dictated commentaries (dictata) of Johannes de Raey (1620/1622–1702) on the texts of René Descartes, shedding light on their structure, development, and on their relations with the academic commentaries of Johannes Clauberg. The study of these commentaries, which are extant as class notes, is important because they conveyed one of the first systematic teach…
Some unpublished fragments on Descartes’s life and works
In this article I present some unpublished fragments concerning René Descartes’s life and works, gathered from the academic commentaries of Johannes de Raey (1620/1622–1702) on his treatises. The fragments, of different degrees of reliability, are important as (1) they reveal how the image of Descartes was shaped among his first followers and biographers; (2) they offer insights on his now lost manuscripts, to which De Raey had access after his d…
Descartes on Place and Motion
This paper offers a reconstruction of the interpretations of Descartes's ideas of place and motion by Dutch Cartesians (Henricus Regius, Johannes de Raey, Johannes Clauberg, and Christoph Wittich). It does so by focusing on the reading of Descartes's Principia philosophiae (1644) offered, in particular, by the dictated commentaries on it. It is shown how such commentaries bring to the light new potential Aristotelian‐Scholastic sources of Descart…
Philosophy (7 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (6 works) · Cartesianism (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (3 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Classics (2 works)