Descartes and the Autonomy of the Human Understanding

ISBN-13: 9781138202320 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 258 str.

John Carriero

Opis

This volume, delineates the transition Descartes effects from a prevalent medieval conception of understanding to a modern conception of it.

Spis treści

Part 1: The Doctrine of Abstraction and Withdrawal From the Senses  1. Introductory Remarks  2. Sensory Foundations  3. High Scholastic Teaching on Cognition  4. Sensory Foundations Reconsidered  5. The Dreaming Hypothesis  6. The Analogy with Painting  7. The Ground of the Intelligibility of the Dreaming Hypothesis  8. The Evil Genius Hypothesis  9. The Evil Genius Hypothesis and the Doctrine of the Creation of Eternal Truths  10. Cartesian Foundations  Part 2: A Mind Better Known than Body  1. Introductory Remarks  2. High Scholastic Teaching on How the Soul Knows Itself  3. Beginning the Second Meditation  4. The Cogito  5. Essence  6. The Imagination’s Role in Knowledge of the Mind  7. Powers and Acts  8. The Specific Nature of the Understanding  9. Mind and Body

O autorze

John Carriero is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles.