Descartes' Theory of Ideas
Title | Descartes' Theory of Ideas PDF eBook |
Author | David Clemenson |
Publisher | Continuum |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2007-07-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
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Clemenson examines the late-scholastic influence on Descartes and the early moderns much more thoroughly than any previous writer has done: he shows that Descartes is no 'representationalist' and thus manages to avoid the well-known problems usually thought to plague his theory of knowledge.
Descartes's Theory of Mind
Title | Descartes's Theory of Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Desmond M. Clarke |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780199284948 |
Descartes is possibly the most famous of all writers on the mind, but his theory of mind has been almost universally misunderstood, because his philosophy has not been seen in the context of his scientific work. Desmond Clarke offers a radical and convincing rereading, undoing the received perception of Descartes as the chief defender of mind/body dualism. For Clarke, the key is to interpret his philosophical efforts as an attempt to reconcile his scientific pursuits with the theologically orthodox views of his time.
Innate Ideas
Title | Innate Ideas PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen P. Stich |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780520029613 |
Meditations on First Philosophy
Title | Meditations on First Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | René Descartes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | First philosophy |
ISBN | 9780941736121 |
Idea and Ontology
Title | Idea and Ontology PDF eBook |
Author | Marc A. Hight |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2010-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0271047658 |
"A wide-ranging study of the 'way of ideas' and its metaphysics, culminating in a bold reinterpretation of Berkeley."
Descartes's Concept of Mind
Title | Descartes's Concept of Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Lilli Alanen |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2009-07-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780674020108 |
Descartes's concept of the mind, as distinct from the body with which it forms a union, set the agenda for much of Western philosophy's subsequent reflection on human nature and thought. This is the first book to give an analysis of Descartes's pivotal concept that deals with all the functions of the mind, cognitive as well as volitional, theoretical as well as practical and moral. Focusing on Descartes's view of the mind as intimately united to and intermingled with the body, and exploring its implications for his philosophy of mind and moral psychology, Lilli Alanen argues that the epistemological and methodological consequences of this view have been largely misconstrued in the modern debate. Informed by both the French tradition of Descartes scholarship and recent Anglo-American research, Alanen's book combines historical-contextual analysis with a philosophical problem-oriented approach. It seeks to relate Descartes's views on mind and intentionality both to contemporary debates and to the problems Descartes confronted in their historical context. By drawing out the historical antecedents and the intellectual evolution of Descartes's thinking about the mind, the book shows how his emphasis on the embodiment of the mind has implications far more complex and interesting than the usual dualist account suggests.
Descartes's Changing Mind
Title | Descartes's Changing Mind PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Machamer |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2009-07-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1400830435 |
Descartes's works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. But in Descartes's Changing Mind, Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire argue that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later works--and that any interpretation of Descartes must take account of these changes. The first comprehensive study of the most significant of these shifts, this book also provides a new picture of the development of Cartesian science, epistemology, and metaphysics. No changes in Descartes's thought are more significant than those that occur between the major works The World (1633) and Principles of Philosophy (1644). Often seen as two versions of the same natural philosophy, these works are in fact profoundly different, containing distinct conceptions of causality and epistemology. Machamer and McGuire trace the implications of these changes and others that follow from them, including Descartes's rejection of the method of abstraction as a means of acquiring knowledge, his insistence on the infinitude of God's power, and his claim that human knowledge is limited to that which enables us to grasp the workings of the world and develop scientific theories.