Hobbes et Gassendi: la psychologie dans le projet mécaniste

Hobbes' and Gassendi's friendship and intellectual affinity constitute a tight thread hard to be untied. Beyond clearly defined convergent views such as the common aversion to Cartesian dualism and innatism and clear divergences in their specific philosophical orientations, the meaning of their often similar trajectories must be precisely clarified. The privileged context for a comparison between them is doubtless the construction of a psychology deeply influenced by empirical premises and whose aim is to establish a close relation between the processes of perception, desire (appetitus) and wi...