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Zusatztext "I believe that [Peter Machamer & J. E. McGuire] are to be commended for enabling us to take seriously the view that Descartes's opinions may have shifted in significant ways and for illustrating a different way to tell the story of the arc of Descartes's career." ---Michael Della Rocca, Metascience Informationen zum Autor Peter Machamer is professor of history and philosophy of science and associate director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. J. E. McGuire is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh! and a resident fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science. Klappentext "Original and well-grounded in the texts! "Descartes's Changing Mind" offers a comprehensive interpretation of Cartesian science. It also tackles questions concerning our knowledge of the new world of Descartes's physics and the mind's relation to that world. Machamer and McGuire take into account Descartes's entire career! from the late 1620s to the time of the Principles! showing that on key issues he altered his views significantly."--Dennis Des Chene! Washington University in St. Louis "This book's main argument--that Descartes's views on metaphysics and natural philosophy changed over time--is significant because Descartes rarely gives the impression that his views have changed and scholars often treat them as a single block. This is the first book to focus on Descartes's changing views! and it is welcome."--Roger Ariew! University of South Florida Zusammenfassung Descartes' works are often treated as a unified, unchanging whole. This book argues that the philosopher's views, particularly in natural philosophy, actually change radically between his early and later works - and that any interpretation of Descartes must take account of these changes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix CHAPTER ONE: From Method to Epistemology and from Metaphysics to the Epistemic Stance 1 Descartes's Early Work: The Rules 5 The World 14 The Discourse on Method 24 CHAPTER TWO: God and Efficient Causation 36 A Historical Preamble 37 God's Efficient Causation and the Introduction of Causa Secundum Esse 45 God! Time! and Continual Creation: The Emergence of Re-creationism 59 Causal Axioms and Common Notions 73 CHAPTER THREE: Seeing the Implications of His Causal Views: The Response to His Critics 82 God as Causa Sui: The High Tide of Descartes's Causalism 83 Eminent Containment! Transcendence! Divine Powers! and God's Causal Harmony 91 Epistemic Teleology 102 CHAPTER FOUR: Body-Body Causation and the Cartesian World of Matter 111 The Current Debate on Body-Body Causation 111 The Early Descartes 116 Cartesian Conservationism 119 Three Questions of Metaphysics: Principles Parts I and II 127 Mature Motion 134 The Place of Our Position in the Current Debate 157 CHAPTER FIVE: Mind! Intuition! Innateness! and Ideas 164 Intuition and Enumeration 165 Ideas and Descartes's New Theory of Mind 169 Innate Ideas 176 Innateness and Sensory Ideas 183 Innate Ideas: Present but Swamped 186 Innateness and Intellectual Memory 188 Common Notions! Eternal Truths! and Immutable Natures 193 CHAPTER SIX: Mind-Body Causality and the Mind-Body Union: The Case of Sensation 198 Sensation 199 The Physical Side of Perception 202 The Mental Side of Perception 209 How the Soul Moves the Body! or Mind-to-Body Causation 221 The Nature of the Distinction between Mind and Body 224 The Mind-Body (Soul-Body) Union 232 Epistemic Teleology and Dualism 239 References 243 Index 251 ...
