Descartes's changing mind [Texte imprimé] / Peter Machamer and J. E. McGuire

Index

Bibliogr. p. [243]-250

From method to epistemology and from metaphysics to the epistemic stance -- Descartes's early work: the rules -- The world -- The discourse on method -- God and efficient causation -- A historical preamble -- God's efficient causation and the introduction of causa secundum esse -- God, time, and continual creation: the emergence of re-creationism -- Causal axioms and common notions -- Seeing the implications of his causal views: the response to his critics -- God as causa sui: the high tide of Descartes's causalism -- Eminent containment, transcendence, divine powers, and god's causal harmony -- Epistemic teleology -- Body-body causation and the Cartesian world of matter -- The current debate on body-body causation -- The early Descartes -- Cartesian conservationism -- Three questions of metaphysics: principles parts I and II -- Mature motion -- The place of our position in the current debate -- Mind, intuition, innateness, and ideas -- Intuition and enumeration -- Ideas and Descartes's new theory of mind -- Innate ideas -- Innateness and sensory ideas -- Innate ideas: present but swamped -- Innateness and intellectual memory -- Common notions, eternal truths, and immutable natures -- Mind-body causality and the mind-body union: the case of sensation -- Sensation -- The physical side of perception -- The mental side of perception -- How the soul moves the body, or mind-to-body causation -- The nature of the distinction between mind and body -- The mind-body (soul-body) union -- Epistemic teleology and dualism.