John Carriero

Descartes and the Autonomy of the Human Understanding

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume, delineates the transition Descartes effects from a prevalent medieval conception of understanding to a modern conception of it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781138202351
• ISBN-10: 1138202355
• Artikelnr.: 53454954

Autorenporträt

John Carriero is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Doctrine of Abstraction and Withdrawal From the Senses 1.
Introductory Remarks 2. Sensory Foundations 3. High Scholastic Teaching on
Cognition 4. Sensory Foundations Reconsidered 5. The Dreaming Hypothesis 6.
The Analogy with Painting 7. The Ground of the Intelligibility of the
Dreaming Hypothesis 8. The Evil Genius Hypothesis 9. The Evil Genius
Hypothesis and the Doctrine of the Creation of Eternal Truths 10. Cartesian
Foundations Part 2: A Mind Better Known than Body 1. Introductory Remarks
2. High Scholastic Teaching on How the Soul Knows Itself 3. Beginning the
Second Meditation 4. The Cogito 5. Essence 6. The Imagination's Role in
Knowledge of the Mind 7. Powers and Acts 8. The Specific Nature of the
Understanding 9. Mind and Body