Descartes's changing mind

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Auteurs principaux : Machamer Peter Kennedy (Auteur), McGuire J. E. (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Descartes's changing mind / Peter Machamer & J. E. McGuire
Publié : Princeton (N.J.), Oxford : Princeton University Press , cop. 2009
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI-258 p.)
Sujets :
  • 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