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17%OFFMarleen Rozemond - Descartes's Dualism - 9780674009684 - V9780674009684
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Descartes's Dualism

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Description for Descartes's Dualism Paperback. Explicates Descartes's aim to provide a metaphysics that would accommodate mechanistic science and supplant scholasticism. This text includes discussion of central differences from, and similarities with the scholastics and how these discriminations affected Descartes's defence of body. Num Pages: 304 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 381.

Descartes, an acknowledged founder of modern philosophy, is identified particularly with mind-body dualism--the view that the mind is an incorporeal entity. But this view was not entirely original with Descartes, and in fact to a significant extent it was widely accepted by the Aristotelian scholastics who preceded him, although they entertained a different conception of the nature of mind, body, and the relationship between them. In her first book, Marleen Rozemond explicates Descartes's aim to provide a metaphysics that would accommodate mechanistic science and supplant scholasticism.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674009684
SKU
V9780674009684
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About Marleen Rozemond
Marleen Rozemond is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Reviews for Descartes's Dualism
[Descartes’s Dualism is] a thorough and careful study of Descartes’s account of the mind/soul.
Stephen Gaukroger
Times Literary Supplement
[Rozemond’s] discussion of the scholastic context of Descartes’ arguments is exceedingly clear and informative, and should be read by anyone who really wishes to understand the context and meaning of Descartes’ argument.
John Barresi
Journal of ... Read more

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