An edition of Descartes's changing mind
(2009)
Descartes's changing mind
by Peter K. Machamer
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Table of Contents
From method to epistemology and from metaphysics to the epistemic stance
Descartes's early work: the rules
The world
The discourse on method
God and efficient causation
A historical preamble
God's efficient causation and the introduction of causa secundum esse
God, time, and continual creation: the emergence of re-creationism
Causal axioms and common notions
Seeing the implications of his causal views: the response to his critics
God as causa sui: the high tide of descartes's causalism
Eminent containment, transcendence, divine powers, and god's causal harmony
Epistemic teleology
Body-body causation and the Cartesian world of matter
The current debate on body-body causation
The early Descartes
Cartesian conservationism
Three questions of metaphysics: principles parts I and II
Mature motion
The place of our position in the current debate
Mind, intuition, innateness, and ideas
Intuition and enumeration
Ideas and Descartes's new theory of mind
Innate ideas
Innateness and sensory ideas
Innate ideas: present but swamped
Innateness and intellectual memory
Common notions, eternal truths, and immutable natures
Mind-body causality and the mind-body union: the case of sensation
Sensation
The physical side of perception
The mental side of perception
How the soul moves the body, or mind-to-body causation
The nature of the distinction between mind and body
The mind-body (soul-body) union
Epistemic teleology and dualism.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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