The Philosophy of Robert Forbes: A Scottish Scholastic Response to Cartesianism
Journal of Scottish Philosophy 11 (2):191-211 (2013)
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In the second half of the seventeenth century, philosophy teaching in the Scottish universities gradually moved from scholasticism to Cartesianism. Robert Forbes, regent at Marischal College and King's College, Aberdeen, was a strenuous opponent of Descartes. The analysis of the philosophy of Forbes and of his teacher Patrick Gordon sheds light on the relationship between Scottish Reformed scholasticism and the reception of Descartes in ScotlandAuthor's Profile
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