Letters on the English author of "Novum Organum" and father of experimental philosophy. Letter 13 is about John Locke and his theories on the immortality of the soul. Letter 14 compares British philosopher Isaac Newton to French philosopher René Descartes. Upon his death in 1727, Newton was compared to Descartes in a eulogy performed by French philosopher Fontenelle. While the British did not appreciate this comparison, Voltaire argues that Descartes, too, was a great philosopher and mathematician. Letter 15 focuses on Newton's law of universal gravitation. Letter 16 talks about Newton's work with optics. Letter 17 discusses Newton's work with geometry and his theories
Freud and Philosophy psychoanalysts or psychologists would accept them. The critic Frederick Crews commented in "Out of My System" (1975) that "school of suspicion" was an apt term for Ricœur's grouping of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. The philosopher Vincent Descombes noted in "Modern French Philosophy" (1979) that "Freud and Philosophy" led to "polemic between the Lacanians" and Ricœur. John B. Thompson described "Freud and Philosophy" as a "well-known and justly acclaimed study of Freud" in his introduction to Ricœur's "Hermeneutics and the human sciences" (1981). He compared Ricœur's views to Lacan's, writing that despite differences between the two, both accepted the "irreducible role