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" Descartes's changing mind / "
Peter Machamer & J.E. McGuire.
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984966
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b739336
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Machamer, Peter K.
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Descartes's changing mind /\ Peter Machamer J.E. McGuire.
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (xi, 258 pages)
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1400830435
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0691138893
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1282449346
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9780691138893
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9781282449343
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Includes bibliographical references ([243]-250) and index.
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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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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.
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Descartes, René,1596-1650.
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Descartes, Rene,1596-1650.
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Descartes, René,1596-1650
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Mind and body.
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Philosophy of mind.
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Mind and body.
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Philosophy of mind.
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PHILOSOPHY-- History Surveys-- General.
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PHILOSOPHY-- History Surveys-- Modern.
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Filosofie.
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194
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B1878.M55M33 2009eb
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08.24bcl
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McGuire, J. E.
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