Descartes's changing mind /
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...
| Основен автор: | Machamer, Peter K. |
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| Други автори: | McGuire, J. E. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
℗♭2009.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=305764 |
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Descartes's changing mind. |
Съдържание:
- 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.