Descartes and the Autonomy of the Human Understanding

Author:   John Carriero
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138202351


Pages:   258
Publication Date:   24 July 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   John Carriero
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138202351


ISBN 10:   1138202355
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   24 July 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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

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