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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 inter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Machamer, Peter K.
Otros Autores: McGuire, J. E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Descartes, Rene, > 1596-1650
Descartes, Rene, > 1596-1650.
Filosofie.
Philosophy of mind.
Mind and body.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Philosophie de l'esprit.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From method to epistemology and from metaphysics to the epistemic stance
  • Descartes's early work: the rules
  • The world
  • The discourse on method
  • God and efficient causation
  • A historical preamble
  • God's efficient causation and the introduction of causa secundum esse
  • God, time, and continual creation: the emergence of re-creationism
  • Causal axioms and common notions
  • Seeing the implications of his causal views: the response to his critics
  • God as causa sui: the high tide of Descartes's causalism
  • Eminent containment, transcendence, divine powers, and god's causal harmony
  • Epistemic teleology
  • Body-body causation and the Cartesian world of matter
  • The current debate on body-body causation
  • The early Descartes
  • Cartesian conservationism
  • Three questions of metaphysics: principles parts I and II
  • Mature motion
  • The place of our position in the current debate
  • Mind, intuition, innateness, and ideas
  • Intuition and enumeration
  • Ideas and Descartes's new theory of mind
  • Innate ideas
  • Innateness and sensory ideas
  • Innate ideas: present but swamped
  • Innateness and intellectual memory
  • Common notions, eternal truths, and immutable natures
  • Mind-body causality and the mind-body union: the case of sensation
  • Sensation
  • The physical side of perception
  • The mental side of perception
  • How the soul moves the body, or mind-to-body causation
  • The nature of the distinction between mind and body
  • The mind-body (soul-body) union
  • Epistemic teleology and dualism.

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