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Author:   H. Ben-Yami
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2015
Weight:   0.380kg
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9781349506286

ISBN 10:   1349506281
Pages:   281
Publication Date:   01 January 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Preface 1. Introduction 2. Descartes' Theory of Perception 2.1 Descartes' Theory of Perception, from The World On 2.2 Descartes' Justification of his Theory 2.3 The Innovation in Descartes' Theory of Perception 3. The Development of Descartes' Theory of Perception 3.1 Descartes' Theory of Perception in the Rules 3.2 Galileo's Influence 3.3 Analytic Geometry and Representational Perception 4. Soul and Physiology 4.1 The Living Body according to Descartes 4.2 Life without Soul, Soul without Life 4.3 The Physiologists' Reception of Descartes' Conception of Life 5. Mind, Machine, Sensation 5.1 Mind and Automaton 5.2 Animals without a Mind 5.3 Painless Pain, Blind Sight 6. Descartes and the Metaphysical Project 6.1 Bérulle and Descartes 6.2 Why was the Meditations Written? 6.3 Augustine and Descartes: Methodological Preliminaries 7. The Meditations: Borrowed Themes with Original Variations 7.1 The First Meditation and the Dream Argument 7.2 Cogito: ergo sum or ergo vivo? 7.3 The Essence of the Wax, and of Bodies Generally 8. Epilogue

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Hanoch Ben-Yami is professor at the Department of Philosophy of Central European University, Budapest. In addition to his work on Early Modern Philosophy, his publications include papers on logic, language, mind, time and causality in Special Relativity, medical ethics and Wittgenstein, as well as a satirical play about experimental philosophy.

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