Product Description: Gerauld de Cordemoy (1626-1684) was one of the leading French Cartesians of his day. He was the sole Cartesian atomist, and was perhaps the first to argue that Cartesian metaphysics led inescapably to occasionalism. Fred Ablondi offers the first book-length treatment in English of Cordemoy's work, filling a long-standing gap in the literature on seventeenth-century philosophical thought...read more