Descartes on innate ideas /
This book offers the first sustained treatment of Descartes' conception of innateness. The concept of innateness is central to Descartes' epistemology; the Meditations display a new, non-Aristotelian method of acquiring knowledge by attending properly to our innate ideas. Yet understanding...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
©2009.
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Colección: | Continuum studies in philosophy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Multiple Meanings of 'Innate Idea'
- 1.1 Ambiguities in Descartes' Idea of 'Idea'
- 1.2 The Dispositional Interpretation of Cartesian Innate Ideas
- 1.3 A Unified Account of Cartesian Innate Ideas
- 1.4 The Recollection Account
- 1.5 Conclusion
- Chapter 2: Innate Ideas as Objects and Acts
- 2.1 The Role of the Meditator's Nature
- 2.2 Distinguishing the Innate from the Adventitious and the Factitious
- 2.3 The Clarity and Distinctness of Innate Ideas
- 2.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 3: The Role of Reflection in Perceiving Innate Ideas
- 3.1 The Reflective Account
- 3.2 Attention, Reflection, and the Interference of the Body
- 3.3 Applying the Reflective Account: Some Examples
- 3.4 Another Example: The Innate Idea of God
- 3.5 Conclusion
- Chapter 4: The Natural Light Reconsidered
- 4.1 The Natural Light, Common Notions, and Innateness
- 4.2 A Reply to an Objection
- 4.3 John Morris on the Natural Light
- 4.4 The Natural Light and the Role of the Will
- 4.5 The Metaphor of Light
- 4.6 Conclusion
- Chapter 5: The Natural Light and Its Truths
- 5.1 Perception by the Natural Light
- 5.2 Some Examples of Perception by the Natural Light
- 5.3 Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Innate Ideas, Corporeal Substance, and Mathematics
- 6.1 The Innate Idea of Extension
- 6.2 Discovering the Innate Idea of Extension
- 6.3 Perceiving Ideas of Shapes
- 6.4 Perceiving Geometrical Propositions
- 6.5 Perceiving Other Mathematical Propositions
- 6.6 Descartes' Laws of Motion
- 6.7 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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