Descartian dualism is one of the most long lasting legacies of Rene Descartes’ philosophy. He argues that the mind and body operate as separate entities able to exist without one another. That is, the mind is a thinking, non-extended entity and the body is non-thinking and extended. His...
in the Critique of Pure Reason in accordance with the context of manifestations of epistemology in modern philosophy.; I argue that Kant's transcendental unity of apperception and Descartes' unity of mind ultimately refer to the same thing, and Kant consequently falls into a form of dualism. The...
e Cartesian Dualism Imagery, Perception and Learning: Contribution of Rene Descartes and the Cartesian DualismImagery, Perception and Learning: Contribution of Rene Descartes and the Cartesian DualismDescartesThis study presents a threefold analysis. First, Descartes' argument for a version of mind-body ...
Rene Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher, generally regarded as the founder of modern Western philosophy. He is known for his epistemological foundationalism as expressed in the cogito (‘I think, therefore I am’), his metaphysical dualism,
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