عنوان

Descartes's changing mind /

1400830435

9781400830435

0691138893

1282449346

9780691138893

9781282449343

b739336

Descartes's changing mind /

[Book]

Peter Machamer & J.E. McGuire.

Princeton, N.J. :

Princeton University Press,

©2009.

1 online resource (xi, 258 pages)

Includes bibliographical references ([243]-250) and index.

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.

0

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 occ.

JSTOR

MIL

22573/cttxr5n

244934

Descartes's changing mind.

9780691138893

Descartes, René,1596-1650.

Descartes, Rene,1596-1650.

Descartes, René,1596-1650

Mind and body.

Philosophy of mind.

Filosofie.

Mind and body.

PHILOSOPHY-- History & Surveys-- General.

PHILOSOPHY-- History & Surveys-- Modern.

Philosophy of mind.

HPC

PHI-- 016000

PHI004000

PHI009000

SCI034000

Machamer, Peter K.

McGuire, J. E.

20201204002101.0

pn

[Book]

Y