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Descartes's Dreams: Imagination in the Meditations: 56
Author(s): Ann Scholl (Author)
- Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication Date: 15 Jun. 2006
- Edition: New
- Language: English
- Print length: 150 pages
- ISBN-10: 0820452459
- ISBN-13: 9780820452456
Book Description
Ann Scholl revises the traditional understanding of the role of imagination and sensory perception in Descartes’s Meditations. Traditionally, Cartesian scholars have focused primarily on sensory perception as the more significant of the two «special» modes of thought. In this work, Ann Scholl describes how a better understanding of Descartes’s skepticism and his arguments for dualism are reached when imagination instead is understood as the more primary of the two special modes of thought. The result is a fresh reading and interpretation of Descartes’s most influential work.
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About the Author
The Author: Ann Scholl received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was formerly a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at European Humanities University-International and Byelorussian State University, Minsk, Belarus. She has been an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Kuwait since Fall 2005. Her scholarly interests include research and publications in applied ethics and feminist theory.
