| Description |
1 online resource (173 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / James Hill -- Consciousness as spontaneous knowledge / Boris Hennig -- Res cogitans as res dubitans / James Hill -- The mind of God and the mind of man : a puzzle in Spinoza's Philosophy of mind / Anthony Savile -- Idea and self-knowledge in Malebranche's anti-Cartesian theory of mind / Jan Palkoska -- John Locke and teh Cambridge Platonists on the nature of the mind / G.A.J. Rogers -- Dull souls and beasts : two anti-Cartesian polemics in Locke / Nicholas Jolley -- Berkeley's last word on spirit / Margaret Atherton -- What Kant could Reid / Petr Glombíček -- Metaphysical egoism and its vicissitudes / Miran Božovič |
| Summary |
An important task for every major philosopher is to offer us an understanding of the nature of mind. The essays in this volume discuss different aspects of the philosophical theories of mind put forward in the century and a half that followed Descartes' Meditations of 1641. These years, often referred to as the 'early-modern' period, are probably unparalleled for originality and diversity in conceiving the mind. The volume not only includes two essays on Descartes' own thinking, but there are .. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Philosophy of mind.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Philosophy.
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Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900.
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Philosophy of mind.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body.
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Philosophy, Modern
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Philosophy of mind
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Glombíček, Petr
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Hill, James, 1964-
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| LC no. |
2010497482 |
| ISBN |
9781443820080 |
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1443820083 |
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9786612650703 |
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6612650702 |
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