Descartes's Theory of Mind Tapa blanda - 2005

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. Revised Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. First softcover edition. Crisp clean covers, tight binding, clean pages and inside covers. No dust jacket, as published. Previous owner's name, Kerry Downes, in pencil at the front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. ISBN: 0199284946. ISBN/EAN: 9780199284948. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 11322041221. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service.. 9780199284948

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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Descartes is commonly read as the paradigm defender of substance dualism, a theory caricatured by Ryle as the 'dogma of the ghost in the machine'. The author shows that a failure to engage with Descartes's scientific work leads to a who

New. Descartes is commonly read as the paradigm defender of substance dualism, a theory caricatured by Ryle as the 'dogma of the ghost in the machine'. On this reading, mind and body are defined in such a way that they have no common properties that might help explain how they interact, and it is therefore impossible to provide any account of precisely those features of human experience that this 'theory' was meant to explain. Thus Descartes proposed an obvious dead-end and almost any beginner in philosophy can diagnose where he went wrong. Apart from its intrinsic implausibility, Desmond Clarke offers good reasons for thinking that this cannot have been Descartes's view. Descartes was an unrelenting critic of what Scholastics called 'substantial forms'. One cannot explain how we succeed in thinking by saying, simply, that we have a thinking faculty. Cartesian objections to forms apply equally to substances. Descartes also argued that we know nothing about substances… Leer más

Paperback / softback. New. Descartes is commonly read as the paradigm defender of substance dualism, a theory caricatured by Ryle as the 'dogma of the ghost in the machine'. The author shows that a failure to engage with Descartes's scientific work leads to a wholesale misunderstanding of his theory of mind. This book is of interest to scholars and students of Descartes.

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