Intellectual History Review. forthcomingIn this article, I analyze Johann Christoph Sturm’s characterization of Cartesianism and his response to Descartes’s philosophy and that of his followers. In his days, Sturm (1635–1703) was an important philosopher and professor of physics and mathematics at the University of Altdorf. Sturm has a balanced reading of Descartes, neither echoing the polemics of Descartes’s adversaries nor blindly following the Frenchman’s philosophy. However, Sturm explicit
