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The Aging Intellect
Author(s): Douglas H. Powell (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: March 25, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 278 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521111609
- ISBN-13: 9780521111607
Book Description
Descartes’s Meditations, one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. This volume of original essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars ranges over all six of the Meditations and explores issues such as scepticism, judgement, causation, the nature of meditation and the meditator’s relation to God, the nature of personhood, Descartes’ theory of sense perception, and his ideas on the nature of substance. The contributors bring new insights to both central and less-studied topics in the Meditations, and connect the work with the rich historical and intellectual context in which Descartes forged his thought. The resulting volume will appeal to a wide range of scholars of early modern thought.
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Book Description
This book provides new insights into understanding Descartes’ philosophy of mind, especially the role and significance of the senses and emotions.
About the Author
Karen Detlefsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. She has previously contributed articles to Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Perspectives on Science and Philosophy Compass.
