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This book explores themes in the philosophy of mind as they emerge within the early modern Cartesian tradition. It provides a fine-grained account of how seventeenth-century thinkers scrutinized and re-interpreted Descartes' doctrines about the nature and functions of the mind.
List of contents
Introduction
Part 1: Mind and Intentionality 1. Modernizing the Mind 2. Representation and Objective Reality 3. The Way of Ideas: Robert Desgabets's Logical Turn of 1671 4. Early Modern Reflection and Late Scholasticism: Continuity or Split? 5. Consciousness and the
Cogito: The Huet-Régis Controversy
Part 2: Bodies and Perception 6. Signs Established by Nature: The System of Representation in Cartesian Sensory Ideas 7. Cordemoy and the Cartesian Analogy Between Language and Perception 8. Descartes, Arnauld, and Elisabeth on Thought's Dependence on the Body 9.
La force qu'a l'ame de mouvoir le corps: The Complicated Case of Louis de La Forge
Part 3: Mind and Sociality 10. "Very Little Reason": Stupid Minds in Descartes and Cartesianism 11. Malebranche on What We Owe to Each Other 12. The
Cogito and the Social Dimension of Self-Knowledge: Claude Buffier 13. Astell as Cartesian: A Cautionary Tale
About the author
Vili Lähteenmäki is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Oulu and a Docent at the University of Jyväskylä. He mainly works on topics in the philosophy of mind and self in early modern philosophy. He has been a visiting researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Queensland, and Harvard University. He is the director of the Academy of Finland project
Thick Subjects: A Reconsideration of Early Modern Views of the Self (2020-25). In his published work, he has discussed early modern philosophy of mind widely, with a particular interest in early modern theories of consciousness.
Oberto Marrama is a Marie Sk¿odowskäCurie Fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and a Guest Research Fellow at the University of Oulu. His primary research area is early modern philosophy of mind. His publications have focused on the philosophies of Spinoza, Cavendish, Hobbes, and Descartes.
Jani Sinokki is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku. Sinokki works extensively in the philosophy of mind and language, with a focus on both historical and contemporary topics.
