Descartes's changing mind
By: Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire.
Contributors: McGuire, J. E.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780691138893
Subjects: Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650; Philosophy of mind; Mind and body
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From method to epistemology and from metaphysics to the epistemic stance; title: Descartes's early work: the rules; title: The world; title: The discourse on method; title: God and efficient causation; title: A historical preamble; title: God's efficient causation and the introduction of causa secundum esse; title: God, time, and continual creation: the emergence of re-creationism; title: Causal axioms and common notions; title: Seeing the implications of his causal views: the response to his critics; title: God as causa sui: the high tide of descartes's causalism; title: Eminent containment, transcendence, divine powers, and god's causal harmony; title: Epistemic teleology; title: Body-body causation and the Cartesian world of matter; title: The current debate on body-body causation; title: The early Descartes; title: Cartesian conservationism; title: Three questions of metaphysics: principles parts I and II; title: Mature motion; title: The place of our position in the current debate; title: Mind, intuition, innateness, and ideas; title: Intuition and enumeration; title: Ideas and Descartes's new theory of mind; title: Innate ideas; title: Innateness and sensory ideas; title: Innate ideas: present but swamped; title: Innateness and intellectual memory; title: Common notions, eternal truths, and immutable natures; title: Mind-body causality and the mind-body union: the case of sensation; title: Sensation; title: The physical side of perception; title: The mental side of perception; title: How the soul moves the body, or mind-to-body causation; title: The nature of the distinction between mind and body; title: The mind-body (soul-body) union; title: Epistemic teleology and dualism.