| Description |
1 online resource (174 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Continuum Studies in Philosophy
|
|
Continuum studies in philosophy.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Contents; Bibliographical Note ; Chapter I; Introduction; 1. The Aims of the Book; 2. Mental Dualism; 3. The Central Role of the Meditations; Chapter II; Who is Descartes' Meditator?; 1. The Meditator as a Beginner; 2. The Beginner and the Natural Inclination to Empiricism; 3. The Maxim of Concept Empiricism: Nihil est in intellectu; 4. 'This Piece of Wax'; OLE_LINK1; OLE_LINK2; 5. The Unstated Strategy; 6. The Meditations and a Process of Conversion; Chapter III; Empiricism and Natural Philosophy; 1. Empiricism and the Neo-Epicureans. |
|
2. Aristotelianism and Epicureanism: A Single Obstacle to Natural Philosophy3. Descartes and Heliocentrism ; 4. The New Physics and the Supremacy of the Intellect; 5. The Rejection of Atoms and the Void; Chapter IV; The Method of Doubt; 1. Leading the Mind Away from the Senses; 2. Notions of the Pure Intellect; 3. The Withdrawal of Assent from the Images of Sense; 4. The Argument from Origin; 5. The Exercise of the Intellect and Will; 6. Dreaming and Lucid Dreaming; 7. Doubt as Reflection of a Higher-Order; 8. Is Cartesian Doubt Really Universal?; Chapter V; Res Cogitans. |
|
1. The Intellectual Nature2. Doubting as the Paradigm of Thought; 3. Sense and Imagination; 4. The Outward and Inward Turns; 5. Intellect as Faculty and Substance; Chapter VI ; The Active Self; 1. Self-Knowledge and Empiricism; 2. From Cogito to Res Cogitans; 3. The Self Perceived by Pure Intellect; 4. Innate Ideas; 5. Res Cogitans as 'Pure Activity'; 6. Res Cogitans and the 'First Person'; Chapter VII; Sense, Sensation and Animal Minds; 1. Sense; 2. The Account of Vision; 3. The Question of Sense Data; 4. 'This Piece of Wax' Again; 5. The Internal Senses; 6. The Three Quasi-Grades of Sense. |
|
7. The Intermingling Thesis8. Animal Sensation ; 9. Bête Machine as a Wider Problem; Chapter VIII; Conscientia and Consciousness; 1. Thought as a Simple Notion; 2. Descartes' Definition of Thought; 3. The Phenomenalist and Intellectualist Readings; 4. The Shortcomings of the Phenomenalist Reading ; 5. The Method of Doubt and Consciousness; 6. Conscientia and Consciousness ; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Descartes'' characterisation of the mind as a ''thinking thing'' marks the beginning of modern philosophy of mind. It is also the point of departure for Descartes'' own system in which the mind is the first object of knowledge for those who reason in an ''orderly way''. This ground-breaking book shows that the Cartesian mind has been widely misunderstood: typically treated as simply the subject of phenomenal consciousness, ignoring its deeply intellectual character. James Hill argues that this interpretation has gone hand in hand with a misreading of Descartes'' method of doubt which treats. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
|
|
Descartes, René, 1596-1650. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hill, James. Descartes and the doubting mind. London, England ; New York : Continuum, ©2012 xi, 161 pages Continuum studies in philosophy. 9781472505477 |
| ISBN |
9781441179869 (electronic book) |
|
1441179860 (electronic book) |
|
9781472505477 |
|
9781441132031 |
|
1441132031 |
|
9781441113108 |
|
144111310X |
|
