Descartes and the Passionate Mind

by Brown, Deborah J.

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Title Statements

Full title :Descartes and the Passionate Mind.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, GBR
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (245 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780511554513, 0511554516
oclc:ocn958554696
LC Classification:B1878.M55 ǂb B76 2006eb
Dewey Decimal:128.209

Cover; Title ; Copyright; Dedication ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Note on references ; Introduction ; 1 Volo ergo sum: the unity and significance of Les Passions de l'âme; THE CORRESPONDENCE WITH ELISABETH; THE INFLUENCE OF THE MEDITATIONS; 2 Perturbations or sweet pleasures? Descartes' place in two traditions regarding the passions; A POPULAR SUBJECT; GALENIC PHYSIOLOGY; THE EMERGENCE OF THE VIS ESTIMATIVA; PASSIONS IN AN UNDIVIDED SOUL.

FORMAL OBJECTS AND FIRST CAUSES: DESCARTES' TAXONOMIC PRINCIPLES3 The natural integration of reason and passion; SENSATION AND MECHANISM; THE DANGERS OF EPIPHENOMENALISM; THE RATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PHENOMENAL INFORMATION; THE STATE OF THE UNION; CONCLUSION; 4 Representing and referring; OBJECTIVE REALITY AND THE PROBLEM OF ERROR; FALSITY: FORMAL AND MATERIAL; ON REFERRING; MATERIAL FALSITY REDUX; IDENTIFYING IDEAS; CONCLUSION; 5 Action and passion: metaphysical integrationism; AN ARISTOTELIAN IDEA?; STRADDLING MODES; ACTION AND PASSION AS TWO MODES.

6 Wonder and love: extending the boundaries of the Cartesian knower and the Cartesian self CURIOSITY AS A VICE OF THE IGNORANT; DESCARTES' CABINET OF WONDER; SELF-WONDER AND SELF-KNOWLEDGE; IND…