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Causality and mind : essays on early modern philosophy /

This text presents 17 of Nicholas Jolley's essays on early modern philosophy. They focus on two main themes: the debate over the nature of causality; and the issues posed by Descartes' innovations in the philosophy of mind. Together, they show that philosophers in the period are systematic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jolley, Nicholas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Scientia and self-knowledge in Descartes
  • Descartes and the action of body on mind
  • Intellect and illumination in Malebranche
  • Sensation, intentionality, and animal consciousness: Malebranche's theory of the mind
  • Malebranch on the soul
  • Occasionalism and efficacious laws in Malebranche
  • Leibniz and Malebranche on innate ideas
  • Leibniz and the excellence of minds
  • Leibniz and occasionalism
  • Causality and creation in Leibniz
  • Leibniz and the causal self-sufficiency of substances
  • Leibniz and phenomenalism
  • Lockean abstractionism versus Cartesian nativism
  • Dull souls and beasts: two anti-Cartesian polemics in Locke
  • Berkeley, Malebranche, and vision in God
  • Berkeley and Malebranche on causality and volition
  • Hume, Malebranche, and the last occult quality.