Gordon Baker, Katherine Morris

Descartes' Dualism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contending against the prevailing view that Cartesian dualism is fundamental to understanding Descartes's philosophy, Gordon Baker and Katherine Morris present a controversial examination of Descartes's philosophy. As the first full-length study of Descartes's conception of the person, Baker and Morris depart radically from traditional representations of Descartes's argument about the persona, the cogito, and the alleged "mind/body" dualism. Contesting the nearly institutionalized view that Cartesian duality is central to understanding Descartes, Baker and Morris illuminate how this "reading" has put ascribed mistakingly, erroneously onto Descartes. They show controversially, how this interpretation has led to both abuse both within philosophy and beyond it. Refusing to draw a distinction between the mind and the body in traditional ways, Baker and Morris open up interesting ways of conceptualizing both ourselves and philosophy itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 249
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134854240
• Artikelnr.: 39265438

Autorenporträt

Baker, Gordon; Morris, Katherine

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. Abreviations and shortened titles. 1 Visions - the programme
the strategy. 2. Cartesian Dualism - The Two wrold View
Consciousness and Clockwork
Catesian Introspection and Cartesian Observation
Cartesian Interaction. 3. A Shadow of a doubt - the two worlds view
Consciousness and Clockwork
Cartesian Introspection and Cartesian Observation
Cartesian Interaction. 4. Descartes' Dualism
The two-substances view
rational souls and sentient machines
self-knowledge
God and 'Our Nature as Union of Mind and Body'
summary. 5. Revisions Descartes' Dualilsm: Neglected Aspects
Assesments of Descartes' Dualism
Metaphysics and concept formation
Conceptual Changes
Swapping New for Old
Division of Labour
Philosophical Imagination. Bibliography. Index of citations from Descartes. Name Index . Subject Index.