Machamer / McGuire / Mcguire Descartes's Changing Mind

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-3043-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Machamer, Peter

McGuire, James E.

Mcguire, J. E.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

CHAPTER ONE: From Method to Epistemology and from Metaphysics to the Epistemic Stance 1

Descartes's Early Work: The Rules 5

The World 14

The Discourse on Method 24

CHAPTER TWO: God and Efficient Causation 36

A Historical Preamble 37

God's Efficient Causation and the Introduction of Causa Secundum Esse 45

God, Time, and Continual Creation: The Emergence of Re-creationism 59

Causal Axioms and Common Notions 73

CHAPTER THREE: Seeing the Implications of His Causal Views: The Response to His Critics 82

God as Causa Sui: The High Tide of Descartes's Causalism 83

Eminent Containment, Transcendence, Divine Powers, and God's Causal Harmony 91

Epistemic Teleology 102

CHAPTER FOUR: Body-Body Causation and the Cartesian World of Matter 111

The Current Debate on Body-Body Causation 111

The Early Descartes 116

Cartesian Conservationism 119

Three Questions of Metaphysics: Principles Parts I and II 127

Mature Motion 134

The Place of Our Position in the Current Debate 157

CHAPTER FIVE: Mind, Intuition, Innateness, and Ideas 164

Intuition and Enumeration 165

Ideas and Descartes's New Theory of Mind 169

Innate Ideas 176

Innateness and Sensory Ideas 183

Innate Ideas: Present but Swamped 186

Innateness and Intellectual Memory 188

Common Notions, Eternal Truths, and Immutable Natures 193

CHAPTER SIX: Mind-Body Causality and the Mind-Body Union: The Case of Sensation 198

Sensation 199

The Physical Side of Perception 202

The Mental Side of Perception 209

How the Soul Moves the Body, or Mind-to-Body Causation 221

The Nature of the Distinction between Mind and Body 224

The Mind-Body (Soul-Body) Union 232

Epistemic Teleology and Dualism 239

References 243

Index 251

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Machamer is professor of history and philosophy of science and associate director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. J. E. McGuire is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh, and a resident fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science.