This edited volume features 20 essays written by leading scholars that provide a detailed examination of L'Homme by Ren茅 Descartes. It explores the way in which this work developed themes not just on questions such as the circulation of the blood, but also on central questions of perception ...
Man Machine, as Thomson explains in the introduction, is not a formal treatise, but, rather, a loosely structured polemic, often given to rhetorical ... Easton,Patricia Ann - 《Dialogue Canadian Philosophical Review》 被引量: 1发表: 1999年 Hume and Descartes on skepticism with regard to demon...
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By late 1633 Descartes had almost completed L'homme, the Treatise on Man; but he abandoned plans to publish it along with a work on matter theory and optics which relied on Copernican cosmology, after he heard of the condemnation of Galileo. L'homme was published posthumously in 1662 (Latin...
In 1634 he also wrote the brief Treatise on Man, which attempted to explain human physiology (a branch of biology dealing with organs, tissues, and cells). Other works In 1637 Descartes finished Discourse on Method, which uses a personal account of his education as an example of the ...
On my reading, the parts of the Discourse are rough outlines of treatises that Descartes composed early in his career: his Histoire de mon esprit , Rules , Treatise on Metaphysics , Treatise on Light , and Treatise on Man . Although each had a separate title, I argue that Descartes ...
In the opening section of the Passions of the Soul, an early modern treatise on emotions, Descartes goes so far as to assert that he will write on this topic "as if no one had written on these matters before." His best known philosophical statement is "cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, ...
[Studies in History and Philosophy of Science] Descartes' Treatise on Man and its Reception Volume 43 || What the Body Can Do: A Comparative Reading of Des... Descartes occupies a position of piviotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most...
Reading1 (Descartes, Dualism)笛卡尔二次元理论 1 READING 1 DESCARTES & DUALISM ___ Exorcizing animal spirits Category: History of neurosciencePosted on: July 10, 2007 6:56 PM, by Mo Website: http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2007/07/exorcizing_animal_spirits.php Trackback URL: http:/...
The unpublished Treatise on Man (L'homme) was the source of a rigorously mechanistic approach to mental activity, which would provide a model for later physiologists. I examine Descartes' account of perception, memory and reflex motion, pointing out his objective to strip matter of sensibility in...