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Descartes and the Doubting Mind (Hardcover, New)
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Descartes and the Doubting Mind (Hardcover, New)
Series: Continuum Studies in Philosophy
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Descartes characterisation of the mind as a 'thinking thing marks
the beginning of modern philosophy of mind. It is also the point of
departure for Descartes own system in which the mind is the first
object of knowledge for those who reason in an 'orderly way. This
ground-breaking book shows that the Cartesian mind has been widely
misunderstood: typically treated as simply the subject of
phenomenal consciousness, ignoring its deeply intellectual
character. James Hill argues that this interpretation has gone hand
in hand with a misreading of Descartes method of doubt which treats
it as all-inclusive and universal in scope. In fact, the sceptical
arguments of the First Meditation aim to lead the mind away from
the senses and towards the intellectual 'notions that the mind has
within it, and which are never the subject of doubt. Hill also
places Descartes concept of mind into the wider setting of his
science of nature, showing how he wished to reveal a mental subject
that would able to comprehend the new physics necessitated by
Copernicus heliocentrism.
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