Descartes's Imagination: Proportion, Images, and the Activity of Thinking - Couverture rigide

Sepper, Dennis L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520200500 ISBN 13 : 9780520200500

Editeur : University of California Press, 1996

Synopsis

Rene Descartes is commonly portrayed as a strict rationalist, a philosopher who theorised a radical, unresolvable split between mind and body. In this long-overdue examination of the role of imagination in Descartes's thought, Dennis Sepper reveals a Descartes quite different from the usual dualistic portrayals and offers a critical reconception of the genesis and nature of the philosopher's thought. In a vigorous analysis of the less-known early works, Sepper finds that initially Descartes assigned the imagination a central role in the mind's activity. Although Descartes eventually lost confidence in the philosophy of imagination, an early understanding of its central role in cognition came to shape the most fundamental notions of his mature philosophy. #FDESepper's radical reassessment of Descartes ultimately raises new questions about the development of modern philosophy.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dennis L. Sepper, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas, is author most recently of Newton's Optical Writings: A Guided Study (1994).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520200500
• ISBN 13: 9780520200500
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 322
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