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Descartes’s Schism, Locke’s Reunion: Completing the Pragmatic Turn in Epistemology

American Philosophical Quarterly, 2017
Centuries ago, Descartes and Locke initiated a foundational debate in epistemology over the relationship between knowledge, on the one hand, and practical factors, on the other.
John Turri, W. Buckwalter
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Unlearning Descartes: Sentient AI is a Political Problem

Journal of Social Computing, 2023
The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has renewed debate about whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be conscious or sentient. This paper identifies two approaches to the topic and argues: (1) A “Cartesian” approach treats consciousness ...
Gordon Hull
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Descartes e a correspondência com Elisabeth: os antecedentes do Tratado das paixões

Revista de Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea, 2016
Quando a proposta é tratar do problema das paixões e da questão moral no pensamento cartesiano, não restam dúvidas quanto a importância do seu Tratado das paixões, por excelência um tratado de moral.
Paula Bettani M. de Jesus
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Imagining Oneself as Forming a Whole with Others: Descartes’s View of Love

Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2021
In this paper, I address two widespread misconceptions about Descartes’s theory of love. Descartes defines love as a passion that ‘incites [the soul] to join in volition to the objects that appear to be suitable to it’ (AT XI: 387/Voss: 62).
Melanie Tate
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Descartes on the Creation of the Eternal Truths

, 2017
on 15 April 1630, in a letter to mersenne, Descartes announced that on his view God creates the truths of mathematics. Descartes returned to the theme in subsequent letters and some of his replies but nowhere is the view systematically developed and ...
D. Macbeth
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Could René Descartes Have Known This? [PDF]

Experimental Mathematics, 2015
Below we discuss the partition of the space of real univariate polynomials according to the number of positive and negative roots and signs of the coefficients.
Jens Forsgård, V. Kostov, B. Shapiro
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DESCARTES ON THE PHENOMENON OF MAN AND THE BOUNDARIES OF DOUBT

Antropologìčnì Vimìri Fìlosofsʹkih Doslìdžen', 2020
Purpose of the article is to reconstruct the ideological and philosophical context in which Descartes actualizes the phenomenon of man and the task of refuting scepticism.
A. M. Malivskyi
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DESCARTES AND THE METEOROLOGY OF THE WORLD [PDF]

Societate şi Politică, 2012
Descartes claimed that he thought he could deduce the assumptions of his Meteorology by the contents of the Discourse. He actually began the Meteorology with assumptions.
Patrick BRISSEY
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Monstrosity and the Limits of the Intellect: Philosophy as Teratomachy in Descartes

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2011
For Descartes, nature must be interpreted through a limited number of simple laws used to describe the multiplicity of the real, focusing on the rule and normality rather than on the exception and monstrosity.
Filippo Del Luchesse
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Rasionalisme Descartes dan Implikasinya Terhadap Pemikiran Pembaharuan Islam Muhammad Abduh

TARBAWI : Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam, 2018
Abstrak Peneitian ini bertujuan mengupas tentang paham rasionalisme yang dicetuskan Rene Descartes dan Implikasinya terhadap Pemikiran Pebaharuan Islam Muhammad Abduh.
Mursyid Fikri
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