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Fardella, Michelangelo (c.1646–1718)

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10.4324/9780415249126-DA031-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-DA031-1
Version: v1,  Published online: 1998
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Fardella was one of the first and most famous Italian Cartesians. Influenced by Malebranche and Leibniz, he rejected materialism in metaphysics, and endorsed a strongly Augustinian form of Cartesian dualism in philosophy of mind. In mathematics, he popularized Descartes’ analytic method. An insufficiently radical thinker, the cultural significance of his work rests on his defence of the Cartesian method against scholasticism.

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Floridi, Luciano. Fardella, Michelangelo (c.1646–1718), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DA031-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/fardella-michelangelo-c-1646-1718/v-1.
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