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The Philosophical Quarterly, 1978
Abstract In a famous passage in the Second Meditation Descartes asks, ‘What am I then? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, is willing, is unwilling, and also imagines and has sensory perceptions.’ On the face of it, the gloss Descartes offers on ‘a thing that thinks’ (res cogitans) is ...
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Abstract In a famous passage in the Second Meditation Descartes asks, ‘What am I then? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, is willing, is unwilling, and also imagines and has sensory perceptions.’ On the face of it, the gloss Descartes offers on ‘a thing that thinks’ (res cogitans) is ...
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Descartes Embodied Psychology: Descartes or Damasios Error?
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2001Damasio (1994) claims that Descartes imagined thinking as an activity separate from the body, and that the effort to understand the mind in general biological terms was retarded as a consequence of Descartes' dualism. These claims do not hold; they are "Damasio's error". Descartes never considered what we today call thinking or cognition without taking
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2008
Descartes, especially, was considered to be responsible for the division between empirically grounded philosophy, on the one hand, and rationalistic deduction from first principles, on the other. A closer look at Descartes? research practice, however, reveals this picture as dramatically simplified.
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Descartes, especially, was considered to be responsible for the division between empirically grounded philosophy, on the one hand, and rationalistic deduction from first principles, on the other. A closer look at Descartes? research practice, however, reveals this picture as dramatically simplified.
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2019
This chapter points out some issues about Cartesian geometry and Descartes’s program of solving geometrical problems by means of algebraic analysis. With this aim, it extends the corpus to Descartes’s mathematical correspondence and takes into account recent interpretations.
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This chapter points out some issues about Cartesian geometry and Descartes’s program of solving geometrical problems by means of algebraic analysis. With this aim, it extends the corpus to Descartes’s mathematical correspondence and takes into account recent interpretations.
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Rethinking Descartes’s Substance Dualism
Studies in the History of Philosophy of Mind, 2021Lynda Gaudemard
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